The births of the following children born to Valentin Martin & Elisabeth Ott are recorded in the parish register of Dittlofsroda: (1) Melchior [Wilhelm], born 24 October 1745; (2) Elisabeth, born 19 January 1749.
Valentin Martin, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann, age 22; Melchior [Wilhelm], age 20; Elisabeth, age 17¼; Magdalena, age 14; Anna, age 10¼; Anna [again], age 8; Margaretha, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck in Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg. They arrived in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767.
Johannes Martin and his wife Elisabeth [née Kühnreich] (the widow of Johann Georg Sierwald) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 46 along with his sister Elisabeth. [See Kühnreich Family.]
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk04.
In 1790, Michael and Adam Martin moved from Stahl am Karaman to Urbach. They are recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. 31. [It is believed that Mchael and Adam are sons of Johannes, but further research is needed to confirm this.]
[Melchior] Wilhelm Martin, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha [née Krutsch] are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 47.
In 1788, widow Margaretha Martin and her son Friedrich moved from Stahl am Karaman to Engels.
The death of Anna Margaretha Martin née Krutsch is recorded on 16 January 1831 in the parish register of Stahl am Karaman.
Magdalena Martin (age 14) and her sisters (Anna Katharina, age 12; Margaretha, age 9; Anna, age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 45 along with their mother and stepfather Johannes Seibel.
Katharina Martin is recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk37.
The Facius List records that Valentin Martin (age 48) came from the German village of Volckersleier. Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that these Martin families came from the German region of Dienheim.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 417.
- 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): Sk04, Sk37, Ur31, Mv2806, Mv2807.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- Parish register of Dittlofsroda.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 202, 203.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3242.
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