Christoph Strack, a potter (Töpfer), his wife Anna, and son Heinrich (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Christoph, his new wife Katharina, and newborn daughter (Katharina, age 6-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census in a list those recruited by Beauregard (No. 100). They are recorded on the 1798 census in Zürich in Household No. Zr31.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Strack came from the German village of An der Haar.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Strack family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 884.
- 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): Zr31.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7221.
Brent Mai