Johann Georg Gulder, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughter Anna Maria (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
Johann Gulder, a priest (Priester [sic]), his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughters (Anna Maria, age 7; Christina, age 2-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 1 with a note that Johann Gulder is serving as the colony's mayor (Vorsteher).
The orphan Johann Adam Roth (age 14), son of the deceased Johann Georg Roth, is also recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer along with the Gulder family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Roth and Gulder families. [See Roth Family.] They had settled in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johann Gulder came from the German village of Neuburg am Wald in the Mainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 615.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 377.
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