Martin Nowak, a farmer, his wife Maria, and his children (Maria, age 4; Christian, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Martin Noack and his wife Maria Sophia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 69. A note on the entry for Household No. 67 indicating that Johann Kaspar Schleuning (age 8) is living with them. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Nowak and Schleuning families.
Jakob Noack and his family are recorded on an 1865 list of colonists who resettled to Lilienfeld along with a note that they had arrived in Lilienfeld from Boisroux on 30 March 1859.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Nowak came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony) while the 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Zerbst.
- 1865 Lilienfeld List.
- 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): 559.
- 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): Bx29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 156.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4390.
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