Johann Laut, a miller (Müller), his wife Christina, and daughter Margaretha (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Johannes Laut, a miller (Müller), his wife Katharina Christina, and son Johann Peter (age 4-days) are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 46. They had settled there on 3 February 1767.
Johannes Laut and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An57.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Laut came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Laut came from the German region of Hanau.
- 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): 163.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): An57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 66.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1036.
Brent Mai