Johann [Heinrich] Straub, a single weaver (Weber), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
He is recorded on the 1767 census of Straub in Household No. 1 newly married to Anna Maria Schmidt, the oldest daughter of Christoph Schmidt with whom he had arrived in Oranienbaum. They are recorded there along with his brother- and sister-in-law (Christoph Schmidt, age 16; Elisabeth, age 9) and orphan Johann Georg Weller (age 18). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Schmidt and Weller families.
It is after Johann Heinrich Straub that the colony takes its name.
Daniel Straub, stepson of Daniel Schmidt, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Straub in Household No. Sr29.
Daniel Straub and his sons (Friedrich Daniel & Johann Heinrich) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 29 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
Daniel Straub and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Households No. 8, 9, 10, 11.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Straub came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Ohrdruf in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 29).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Households No. 8, 9, 10, 11).
- 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): 148.
- 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): Sr29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 229.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #904.
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