Robert
Gregorius Robert arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
Gregorius Robert is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Grigorius Robert, a starch maker (Stärkemacher), and his wife Katharina Glauwitz settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 111.
In 1785, Gregorius Robert moved from Katharinenstadt to the Caucasus.
The 1767 census records that Robert Grigorius came from the town of Liège and that Katharina Glauwitz came from the town of Königsberg in Prussia.
- 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): Ka066, Mv1179.
- 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): 300.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3807.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Gregorius Robert.
Source: Brent Mai