Johann Mulidar [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Leonhard (age ½) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johannes Molidor, a farmer, and his [new] wife Julianna settled in the Volga German colony of Leichtling on 14 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.
In 1852, Michael Molidor and his family moved from Leichtling to Marienfeld.
Michael Mollentor [sic] from Leichtling and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann came from the German region of Lothringen. The 1767 census records that Johannes Molidor came from the German region of Saarbrücken.
- 1857 Leichtling Census (Household No. 66).
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 109.
- 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): Lg05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 52.
Brent Mai