Nikolaus Schulz, a carpenter (Tischler), and his wife Johanna Maria van der Nauweland settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 75.
Nikolaus Schultz (age 36), his wife Johanna Marie von d. Nauwelandt (age 39), and sons (Gregorius Christof, born 9 April 1776; Johann, born 4 March 1779) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register in Household No. 1.
In 1783, Nikolaus Schulz and his family left Katharinenstadt.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Schulz came from the German village of Levorgrau near Münster. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Nikolaus Schultz came from the village of Levorgrau near Münster in West-Holland.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register (Household No. 1).
- 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): Mv1175.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 292.
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