Lontz / Luntz*
Leonhard Luntz & Gerdruth Müller were married 25 April 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.
Johann [Leonhard] Lontz and his wife Gertruda arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 May 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Geier.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 5 March 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 80.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Lontz was a baker from Bayreuth while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the German village of Neustadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan & Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767): Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #145.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 328.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #114.
Brent Mai