Dominikus Paulÿ and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.
Dominicus Paul [sic] and his wife Elisabetha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.
In 1788, Dominicus Paulÿ and his family moved from Hölzel to Neu-Kolonie.
Dominicus Paulÿ, his daughters, and stepchildren [surname Bineder] are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk52.
The death of Dominicus Paulÿ in 1799 is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 48.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Dominikus Paulÿ was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a tailor. The 1767 census records that Dominik[us] Paulÿ came from the village of Summern [?] in Luxembourg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Paulÿ family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 48).
- 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): Nk52, Mv0933.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 122.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6254.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8481-8482.
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