Mattias Lütger, a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus under the command of Skipper Johann Graap along with his sister-in-law Susanna [widow of Andreas Wilberger] and her son Jakob [Wilberger] (age 3).
It is believed that his widow Maria Barbara (age 23) is recorded as the new wife of Jakob Konrad on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 27. Her sister Susanna (age 28) is recorded there as the new wife of Peter Breitinger on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 29 along with her son Jakob [Wilberger] (age 5). [See Konrad and Wilberger Families.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mattias Lütger came from the German region of the Pfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Lütger 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): 734.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 184, 185.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5870.
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