Gottfried Pauly [sic] (age 17) is recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 83 along with his sister Anna and brother-in-law Karl Sommer and a note that they all relocated to the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.
Christian Gottfried Paul, his wife Johanna Maria née Feidel, and daughter Katharina (age ¼) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 15 along with a note that daughter Dorothea Elisabeth was born 19 August 1778.
Gottfried Paul and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka004.
The death of Gottfried Paul in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 4.
The 1767 census does not record from where Gottfried Paul came. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Christian Gottfried Paul came from the village of Ziethen in Sachsen (Saxony) and that his wife came from the town of Lübeck.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 15).
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 4).
- 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): Ka004.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 308.
Brent Mai