Christoph Arnst, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 81 along with 5 stepchildren with the surname Lieder (Johann Detlof, age 18; Karl, age 15; Sophia, age 10; Karl Ludwig, age 8; Joachim, age 5).
The 1767 census records that Christoph Arnst came from the German village of Gonna in the Mecklenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Arnst family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bx10.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 159.
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