Peter Otto, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Peter Otte [sic] and his wife Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Maria died en route.
Widower Peter Otto, a farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 117 along with a note that he moved to the colony of Kaneau in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Peter Otto came. The 1767 census records that Peter Otto came from the region of Brandenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 828.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6633 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 224.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4046-4047.
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