Franz Max, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and sons (Konrad, age 18; Johann, age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Franz Max (age 46), a farmer, his wife Sophia (age 24), and sons (Konrad [age not recorded]; Johann Adam, age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler. They had arrived in Dehler on 1 July 1767.
Johannes Max (age 18), son of the deceased Konrad Max, is recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl40.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Max came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Franz Max came from the German village of Waterheim [Wattenheim] in the area of Leiningen.
- 1857 Dehler Census (Household No. 7).
- 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): 431.
- 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): Dl14, Dl40.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 268.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3355.
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