Lenk (Paulskaya)
Johann Lenk, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Karl, age 13; Anna, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann Christian Lenck [sic], his wife Margaretha, and children (Carl Friederich, age 13; Anna Christina, age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3 along with stepchildren (Friedrich Sonnengrün, age 15; Christina Sonnengrün, age 13).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Lenk came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony) while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Illenau [?].
- 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): Pl49.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 332.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1534.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1030-1033.
Brent Mai