Nikolaus Nein, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Christian, age 18; Anna, age 14; Johann, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Schilling. Surviving sons Johannes and Christian are recorded there on the 1775 census in Households No. 60 & 64 and on the 1798 census in Households No. Sg063 & Sg067.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Nein came from the German region of Isenburg.
-1775 Census of Schilling (Nos. 60 & 64).
- 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): 235.
- 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): Sg063, Sg067.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1677.
Brent Mai