Johann Ludÿ, a farmer, his wife Rosina, and daughters (Katharina, age 17¼; Gertruda, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johannes Ludy, his wife Elisabetha, and daughter Catharina (age 17¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johannes died en route.
It is not known in which colony the widow Ludÿ settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Ludÿ came from the German region of Leiningen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ludÿ family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 5443.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5443.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3834-3836.
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