Anton Luea, a miller, and his wife Ottilia 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.
Anton Luja and his wife Ottillia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anton Lea [sic], a miller (Müller), his wife Ottilie, and daughter Maria (age 9-months) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census.
Anton Luea and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg28.
Johannes Luea, son of Anton Luea, and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg38.
The death of Anton Luea on 14 September 1811 is recorded in the parish register of Zug.
Nikolaus Luea, son of Anton Luea, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schönchen in Household No. 42.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Luea came from the German region of Lothringen. The 1767 census records that Anton Lea [sic] came from the German village of Stein.
Parish registers record a variety of spellings of this surname including Luja, Luia, Luea, Luis, and Louis.
- 1834 Schönchen Census (Household No. 42).
- 1834 Zug Census (Households No. 48, 57, 78).
- 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): 692.
- 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): Zg24, Zg28, Zg38.
- Parish register of Zug.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 361.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5505.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3653-3654.
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