Michael Löw, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Elsa (age 12) 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.
Michael Löw, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Elsa (age 12) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 with a note that daughter Elsa died in route.
Michael Löbe [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]sons (Mattias [Meinrath], age 15½; Johannes [Meinrath], age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Cäsarsfeld in Household No. 12. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767. [See Meinrath Family.] A note accompanying the 1767 census records that that they relocated to the colony of Basel in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Michael Löbe [sic] came from the German village of Kirchheim.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Löw 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): 874.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 246.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7122.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3973-3975.
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