Martin (Katharinenstadt)*

Sebastian Martin married on 26 November 1754 in St. Martin's Catholic Church in Orb to Barbara Brehm.

The births of the following children born to Sebastian Martin & Barbara Brehm are recorded in the parish register of St. Martin's Catholic Church in Orb: (1) Johannes, born 29 August 1755, died in infancy; (2) Anna Maria, born 29 June 1757, died 16 August 1762; and (3) Maria Barbara, born 12 January 1760, died 20 February 1760. 

Barbara Martin née Brehm died 12 January 1760. Sebastian Martin remarried on 10 February 1760 in St. Martin's Catholic Church in Orb to Maria Margaretha Jonas.

The births of the following children born to Sebastian Martin & Maria Margaretha Jonas are recorded in the parish register of St. Martin's Catholic Church in Orb: (1) unnamed child, stillborn 9 November 1760; (2) Johann Philipp, born 7 December 1761, died 16 July 1764; (3) Anna Margartha, born 12 February 1764; and (4) Maria Margaretha, born 19 May 1766.

Sebastian Martin, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughters (Maria, age 3; Margaretha, age 13-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Widow Margaretha Martin is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 228. She had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 17 August 1767.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Sebastian Martin came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Margaretha Martin came from the German village of Orb.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.