Jurgen Letzreich, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Katharina, and sons (Georg, age 17¼; Heinrich, age 15¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Schilling and are recorded there on the 1775 census in Household No. 62.
Brothers Wilhelm & Michael Lötsereich and their families are recorded on the 1857 census of Schilling in Household No. 126.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jurgen Letzreich came from the German village of Usingen.
- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 62).
- 1857 Schilling Census (Household No. 126).
- 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): 236.
- 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): Sg065.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1685.
Brent Mai