Peter Per, a farmer, his wife Maria Theresia, daughters (Margaretha, age 9; Anna, age ½), and his mother Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard the galliot Der Jan under the command of Skipper Markus Dragun.
Peter Per, his wife Maria Theresia, daughters (Margretha [sic], age 9; Anna, age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Peter, daughter Anna, and mother Catharina died in route.
It is not known in which colony the surviving members of this family settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Per came from Luxembourg.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5626.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6630-6634.
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