Leonhardt Hölzer, his wife Theodora, and children (Johann Georg, age 7; Margaretha, age 4; Johann Michael, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
Leonhardt Höltzer, his wife Theodora, and children (Georg, age 7; Margaretha, age 4; Michael, age 2¼; Anna Elisabeth, born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna Elisabeth died en route.
Georg Johann Holzer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Basel in Household No. Bs36.
Michael Holzer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Basel in Household No. Bs10.
- 1834 Basel Census (Households No. 15, 31, 55, 61, 75, 87).
- 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): Bs10, Bs36.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6723 [not recorded on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4123-4128.
Brent Mai
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