Peter Klug arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Peter Glo is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Pierre Gloo [sic], a physisian (Arzt), and his wife Dorothea arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 143.
Pierre Glo [sic] and his wife Maria née Fischron are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 154 along with a note that they had been beurlaubt [on leave] in Penza since 1770.
The 1767 census records that Pierre Gloo [sic] came from the French city of Paris. The 1767 census also records that according to other information, he comes from the city of Dijon in Burgundy, and his wife is from Paris. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Pierre Glo [sic] came from the town of Dijon in the Bourgogne region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 154).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 875.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 306.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7133.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4603.
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