Anna Justus, widow of Philipp Justus, and her son Wilhelm (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Wilhelm settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35 along with the Wolf Heinrich Weber family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Justus and Weber families. A note on the 1767 census records that Wilhelm Justus moved to the neighboring colony of Beideck in 1768.
Wilhelm Justus and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 18.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Justus came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 18).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 407.
- 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): Bd28.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 149.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3150.
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