Johann Ludwig Kauz, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber along with his sister Anna Elisabeth and her husband Johann Brick. [See Brick Family.]
They settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Ludwig Kauz came from the German region of Wetzlar.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kautz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 26.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2014.
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