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 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Johann Karlin, an innkeeper (Gastwirt), and his wife Henrietta, are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 102. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 5 March 1767.
Peter Winschu [sic] (age 41), a cloth maker (Zeugmacher), his wife Herika [Henrietta] née von Bromel (widow Karlin) (age 31), children (Gottfried, age 18; Maria Elisabeth, age 16; Johann, age 15; Maria, age 5), and step-sons (Friedrich Karlin, age 8; Michael Karlin, age 4) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 113. [See Windschuh Family.]
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. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Henrietta née von Bromel (widow Karlin), came from the town of Armeiden [sic] in Holland [The Netherlands].
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register (Household No. 113).
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 75).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 54.
- 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.
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