Johann Lüdeck, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Johann Lütje [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Litke, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and stepdaughters [surname not recorded] (Margaretha, age 17; Anna Maria, age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 55. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Lüdeck came from the German region of Prussia. The 1767 census records that Johann Litke came from the German village of Mühlhausen in Prussia.
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): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 663.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5264 (p.337).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2126.
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