Georg Blau, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
Johann Georg Blau, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 19. They had settled there on 12 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Blau came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Burbach in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Blau family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 24.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2199.
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