Nikolaus Klein, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Novaya Dvinka under the command of Lieutenant Perepechin along with single servand Johann Lechner.
Nikolaus Klein, a farmer, and his wife, Anna Maria Köhler, settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 61.
In 1792, Johannes Klein moved from Köhler to Hildmann.
In 1795 Johann Gottfried Klein moved from Köhler to Leichtling.
Mattias Klein, son of Nikolaus Klein, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl58 along with his sister Maria Margaretha Klein (age 20).
Jakob Klein from Leichtling and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Klein came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Gemünden am Main in the Würzburg region.
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hd24, Kl58, Lg28, Mv1324, Mv1335.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 374.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3838.
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