Andreas Justus, son of Andreas Justus (d. 8 August 1773) & Anna Catharina Schomber (24 August 1687 - 25 January 1759), was born 6 May 1725 in Kesselbach.
He married in Londorf on 21 September 1747 to Anna Elisabetha Faulstich. She had been born in Kesselbach on 7 November 1727.
The parish register of Londorf records that the following children were born to Andreas Justus & Anna Elisabeth Faulstich of Kesselbach: (1) Johann Heinrich, born 17 May 1748; (2) Helena, born 19 May 1752, baptized 21 May 1752; (3) Andreas, born 7 November 1755, baptized 8 November 1755; and (4) Johann Balthasar born 9 May 1759.
Andreas Justus, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and their children (Johann, age 18; Katharina, age 16½; Andreas, age 15; Balthasar, age 10¼; and Maria, age 1-week old) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Fischer on 28 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33.
In 1793, Gottfried Justus moved from Fischer to Paulskaya.
In 1796, Johann Christoph Justus moved from Fischer to Stahl am Karaman.
The register recording the baptism of daughter Helena in 1752 records that Andreas Justus is a "mdo? feldschütz Zu Londorff" [a field guard protecting grounds, specifically agriculture].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Justus came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German district of Kisi [probably referring to Gießen] in the Darmstadt region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 321.
- 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): Fs15, Fs16, Fs25, Pl51, Sk10, Mv0606, Mv0615.
- Parish register of Londorf.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 417.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2373.
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Entry from the parish register of Londorf recording the baptism of Helena Justus on 21 May 1752.
Source: Dominik Krämer.
Entry from the parish register of Londorf recording the baptism of Andreas Justus on 8 November 1755.
Source: Dominik Krämer.