Johann Walter, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Johann Walter, a farmer, his wife Christina, daughter Maria (age ½), and stepdaughter Katharina [surname not recorded] (age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 11. They had settled there on 12 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Walter came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Johann Walter came from the German village of Wolfhagen in the Hessen-Kassel region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Walter family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 126.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 300.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #730.
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