Nikolaus Pelsack, a single stonemason, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard the bark named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Nicolaus Pelsack is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Nikolaus Bilzack [sic], a joiner (Tischler), his wife Margaretha [widow of Johannes Rettiger], and stepchildren (Maria Rettig[er], age 15; Maria Elisabeth Rettig[er], age 13; Maria Elisabeth [again] Rettig[er], age 11; Joseph Rettig[er], age 9) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 19.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Pelsack came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Bilzack [sic] came from the German region of Lausitz [along the German-Polish border].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bilzack family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 165.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4731.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5642.
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