Widow Anna Butterweck and her daughter Maria (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair along with the single Elisabeth [Walter] (age 21).
Anna Butterweck and her daughter Maria Catharina (age 7) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with Elisabeth Walter (age 21).
It is not known in which colony Anna Butterweck and her daughter settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Butterweck came from the German region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Butterweck family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 212.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1464.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0956-0958.
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