Johann Georg Walter, a miller, his wife Katharina, and children (Eva Katharina, age 8; Dominikus, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Johann Georg Walter, a miller (Müller), his wife Rosine Katharina, and children (Eva Katharina, age 7; Dominikus, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 31. They had settled there on 11 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Walter came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Walter came from the German village of Mittelstadt in the Württemberg region.
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): 30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 222.
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