Peter Arendt, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and children [Anna, age 11; Johann, age 10¼) [at least Johann is actually a stepson - surname Faust] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Peter Ahrendt, his wife Dorothea, and children (Ann. Elisabeth, age 16½ [sic]; Johann Georg [Faust], age 3½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Peter Arendt [recorded as Arnhold by Dr. Plehve], a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and [step-]son Georg [Faust] (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 41. They had settled there on 7 June 1767.
In 1787, widow Elisabeth Arndt moved from Boisroux to Schwed with Georg Faust, her son by her first husband.
Georg Faust from Boisroux and his mother Dorothea are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwed in Household No. Sw08 along with Dorothea's new husband Andreas Starkloff from Paulskaya.
The death on 18 March 1801 of Dorothea Starkloff née Eschenberger is recorded on the parish register of Schwed.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Arendt came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Arendt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 197.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sw08, Mv0313.
- Parish register of Schwed.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 149.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1337.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0654-0657.
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