Adam Ulrich, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 10 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28 along with his new wife Katharina Hoffmann.
Widower Adam Ulrich and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl43.
The death of Adam Ulrich in 1833 is recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 37.
Johannes & Johann Georg Ulrich, sons of Adam Ulrich, and their families are recorded on the 1850 census of Köhler in Households No. 78 & 79, respectively.
Johannes Ulrich is recorded on the 1857 census of Köhler in Household No. 95 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Josefstal in 1852.
Johannes Ulrich from Köhler and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 66.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Ulrich came from the German region of Dienheim. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Lohr.
- 1834 Köhler Census (Household No. 37).
- 1850 Köhler Census (Households No. 78, 79).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 66).
- 1857 Köhler Census (Households No. 91, 95).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 327.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kl43.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 366.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2428.
Brent Mai