Christian Klitz, his wife Maria, and son Johann (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Christian Klitz, his wife Maria, and son Johann [age not recorded] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that all three of them died in route.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Christian Klitz came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Klitz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 828.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6637 [not included 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): #4053-4055.
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