Heinrich März, a coppersmith (Kupferschmied), and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Heinrich März (age 57), a farmer, and his wife Katharina (age 52) are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 43. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich März came from the German region of Nürnberg. The 1767 census records that Heinrich März came from the German village of Fürth in the Ansbach region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this März 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): 722.
- Oranienbaum passenger list (#5834) [not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 46.
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