Peter Marx, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Michael (age 4½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
Peter Marx, a butcher (Fleischer), his [new] wife Elisabeth, his son Michael (age 5), and [step-]children [surname not recorded] (Johannes, age 18; Maria Susanna, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 87. They had arrived in Brabander on the 1767 census in Household No. 87.
Michael Marx from Brabander is recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br63.
The death of Michael Marx in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Bauer in Household No. 83.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Peter Marx came from Luxembourg.
- 1834 Bauer Census (Household No. 83).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 398.
- 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): Br63.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 233.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3059.
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