Franz Joseph Glück and his wife Maria Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
Frantz Glück, his wife Maria Elisabeth,and daughter Regina Margreta (age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Regina Margreta died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Joseph Glück was a teacher from the German region of Würzburg while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the village of Wertheim.
- 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): Kl45.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 369.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5714.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2638-2640.
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