Jurgen Klaus, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Margaretha (age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Georg Klaus, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Margaretha (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 22. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jurgen Klaus came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Georg Klaus came from the German village of Gettorf.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Klaus family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 555.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 336.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4347.
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