Johann Nuss and his wife Ursula arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Johann Nuss [without his wife] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann [Georg] Nuss, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Ursula [Wahl] are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau (No. 15) along with a note that they relocated to the Volga German colony of Wittmann in 1768.
They are recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Wm30.
Georg Nuss died in Wittmann in 1822.
The 1767 census records that Johann [Georg] Nuss came from the German village of Lauda.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 832.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6677 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- 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): Wm30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 266.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3770.
Brent Mai