Walpurgis Martin arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Orphan Walburgis Martin (age 17) is recorded on the 1767 census of Bettinger in Household No. 1 along with the Karl Christoph Bettinger family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Martin and Bettinger families.
The 1767 census does not record from where Walburgis Martin came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Martin 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): 836.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6731 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 131.
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