Strauss (Orlovskaya-2)
Balthasar Strauss, a farmer, and his wife Walpurga arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Baltasar Straus and his wife Walburg are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Walburg died en route.
Balthasar Strauss is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 69.
Balthasar Strauss and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or62.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Balthasar Strauss came from the German region of Ansbach while the 1767 census records that he came from the village of Ostheim.
- 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): Or62.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 364.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4417.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6010-6011.
Brent Mai