Pabst (Beideck)
Ludwig Pabst, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Martin (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat under the command of Midshipman Mankensey.
Ludwig Pabst and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 14.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Pabst came from the German region of Riedesel.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 14).
- 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): Bd59, Bd86.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1196.
Brent Mai