Faust (Katharinenstadt)*
Christian Faust, a miller (Müller), his wife Charlotta, and their children (Katharina, age 13; Elisabeth, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
Christian Faust, his wife Charlotta, and daughter (Catharina, age 13; Elisabeth, age 9½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Elisabeth died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767 where Christian Faust is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 124 along with his new wife Anna and surviving daughter Katharina.
The 1767 census records that Christian Faust came from the German village of Alsfeld in the Hessen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Faust family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 303.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7066.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3880-3883.
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