Gregorius Robert 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.
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 arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 111.
Gregorius Robert and his wife Katharina née Glauwitz are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 63.
In 1785, Gregorius Robert moved from Katharinenstadt to the Caucasus.
The widow of Gregorius Robert and his two sons (Johann Jakob, age 18; Johann Philipp, age 15) are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka066.
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. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that they came from the same places.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 63).
- 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.
- 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