Johann Luwieß, a single weaver (Weber), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Georg Luwiess is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is believed that he married during this transport or shortly after arrival in the Volga German colonies to Dorothea, the widow of Johann Ludwig Bandel, and that she, too, died either en route or shortly after arrival in the Volga German colonies. [See Bandel Family.]
Johannes Luwieß, a weaver (Weber), his [new] wife Maria, daughter Magdalena (age 9-months), and [step-daughter] Christina [Bandel] (age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 66 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Basel in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Luwieß came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Johannes Luwieß came from the German village of Hagengen [?].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 210.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5572.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3044-3046.
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