Ludwig Schuster, his wife Karolina, and daughter Anna (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Widower Ludwig Schuster, a tailor (Schneider), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census in Household No. 60.
It is not known in which colony he settled.
The 1767 census records that Ludwig Schuster came from the German village of Westerburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schuster family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 881.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 274.
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