Anton Prevot 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.
Anton Proevot [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anton Prevot, a barber (Friseur), and his wife Elisabeth Speher are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 148. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
Anton Provoff (age 35), a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth née Spar (age 23) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 137 along with a note that they are on leave [Beurlaubt] in Moscow.
The 1767 census records that Anton Prevot came from the French region of Verdun. The 1776 Kathrinenstadt Land Register records that he came from Paris in France and that his wife came from the German village of Schmalwasser.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 137).
- 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): 834.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6693 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 307.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3805.
Brent Mai