Lorenz Anschütz, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Katharina, and son Philipp (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Lorentz Anschütz, his wife Anna Catharina, and son Conrad (age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
His wife and son died after arrival in Russia. He remarried to the widow Katharina Müller and they settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 31 along with stepson Gottlieb Müller (age 8).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Lorenz Anschütz was a blacksmith while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Lorenz Anschütz came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Lorenz Anschütz came from the German village of Waldau in Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Anschütz family among the Volga German colonies.
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