Johann Just Gerhardt, a miller, his wife Anna margaretha, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 15; Elisabeth, age 11; Christina, age 7; Johann Peter, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Just Gerhardt was a miller while the 1767 census records that he was a butcher (Fleischer).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Just Gerhardt came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Just Gerhardt came from the German village of Argheilgen in the Darmstadt area.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 130.
- 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): Sr31.
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