Conrad Otto, a mason (Maurer) from Usingen, & Cathar. Elisab. Laut from Usingen were married on 17 July 1766 in Pastor Möllraht's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Konrad Otto, a farmer, his wife Katharina, his mother-in-law Katharina [surname not recorded], and his sister-in-law Eva Anna (age 10¼) [surname not recorded] 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.
Konrad Otto (age 22), a farmer, his wife Katharina Elisabeth (age 22), and his sister-in-law [wife's sister] Anna Margaretha [surname not recorded] (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 15. They had arrived in Bangert on 1 July 1767.
Katharina Otto Huber née Konstanz (age 48) from Warenburg and her children by the deceased Konrad Otto (Katharina Elisabeth, age 22; Elisabeth Margaretha, age 19; Heinrich Wilhelm, age 13; Karl Heinrich, age 10; Anna Margaretha, age 7; Adam, age 5) are recorded on the 1798 census of Bangert in Household No. Bg14 along with her current husband Philipp Konrad Huber.
Heinrich Wilhelm Otto (age 26), Karl Heinrich Otto (age 23), and Johann Adam Otto (died in 1803), stepsons of Philipp Konrad Huber, are recorded on the 1811 census of Bangert in Household No. 14.
Heinrich Wilhelm Otto (age 49) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Bangert in Household No. 23.
Karl Heinrich Otto (age 40) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Bangert in Household No. 33.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Otto came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Mittelhausen in the region of Nassau-Usingen.
[On a publication of the 1798 census, this surname is erroneously recorded as Alt.]
- 1811 Bangert Census (Household No. 14).
- 1834 Bangert Census (Households No. 23, 33).
- 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): 438-439.
- 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): Bg14.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #258.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 109.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3413.
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