Joseph Gerwelheim, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 25 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 50 along with his new wife Maria Elisabeth and her children Maria Elisabeth & Fritz Antor.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Gerwelheim was a farmer from the German village of Bassenheim. The 1767 census records that he was a furrier (Kürschner) from the German village of Hof in the Bayreuth region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 32.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3034.
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