Ludwig Thies [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Ludwig Dies, a gardner (Gärtner), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
Anna Elisabeth, widow of Ludwig Dies, and her children are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml15.
Jakob Friedrich Dies is recorded on the 1834 census of Müller records in Household No. 80 that he relocated to the colony of Shcherbakovka. He is recorded on the 1834 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. 35.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Thies [sic] came from the German region of Hannover. The 1767 census records that Ludwig Dies came from the German region of Hannover.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 388.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ml15.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 180.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2974.
Brent Mai