Just [sic] Altenhoff, a blacksmith, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 13; Philipp, age 11; Maria, age 10; Katharina, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Justus Altenhoff, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Christoph Adam, age 14; Phillip Jacob, age 13; Maria Marg., age 12; Cath. Magdalena, age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Justus Altenhof, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Katharina, and children (Adam, age 15½; Philipp, age 13; Margaretha, age 12; Katharina, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 39. They had settled there on 3 August 1767
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Just [sic] Altenhoff came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Justus Altenhof came from the German village of Reibertenrod in the Hessen region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Or09, Or46.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 320.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4552.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5338-5342.
Brent Mai