Johann Andreas Lind [sic], his wife Rosina, and daughter Louisa (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Andreas Lindau, his wife Rosina, and daughter Lowisa (age 3) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Lowisa died in route.
Andreas Litauer [sic], a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Rosine, and daughter Louise (age 9-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
They had settled in Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767. The 1767 census records that Andreas Litauer came from the German village of Preetz [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 840.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6769 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 396.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4179-4181.
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