Martin (Lauwe)

Nikolaus Martin, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 19; Johann, age 17½; Rosina, age 16; Gottfried, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.

Nicolaus Martin, his wife Anna, and children (Maria Margar., age 20; Johann Carl, age 18; Cathar. Elisabeth, age 18; Johann Gottfried, age 13) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna died en route.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 5 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28 along with Nikolaus's new wife Maria Walpurga and her children [surname Morasch] (Maria Katharina, age 18; Rosina Elisabeth, age 18; Johannes, age 13; Maria Margaretha, age 9).

The widow of Gottfried Martin and their children (Michael, age 14; Johann Georg, age 12; Johann Martin, age 9; Gottlieb, age 7) are recorded on the 1798 census of Lauwe in Household No. Lw27.

Johann Gottlieb Martin is recorded on the 1811 census of Lauwe in Household No. 28 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Jost in 1809 [sic].

Johann Gottlieb Martin from Lauwe is recorded on the 1811 census of Jost in Household No. 24 along with a note that he had arrived in Jost from Lauwe in 1808 [sic].

Widower [Johann] Karl Martin is recorded on the 1798 census of Lauwe in Household No. Lw41.

The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Martin came from the German village of Eberbach in the Kurpfalz region.