Christoph Holtzleuter and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Christian [sic] Holtzleuther [sic] and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christoph Holzleitner [sic] and his wife Eva are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 78. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Holtzleuter was a stonemason while the 1767 census records that he was a tailor (Schneider).
The 1767 census records that Christoph Holzleitner came from the German village of Geiselwind in the Bamberg 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.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 366.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4729.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5640-5641.
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