Karlin
Johann Adolph Karlin, his wife Henrietta, and his sons (Adolph, age 5; Franciscus, age 3; Antonius, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 May 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Geier.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 5 March 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 102.
Michael Karlin, son of the deceased Adolph Karlin, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka055.
The death of Michael Karlin in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 75.
The 1767 census records that Johann Karlin came from the town of Amsterdam in Holland.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 75).
- 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): Ka055.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 298.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #80.
Brent Mai