[Johann] Heinrich Nau, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 19; Johann, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Fischer on 28 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Nau came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Nau came from the German village of Kisi [?] in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Nau family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 328.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 417.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2434.
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