Michael Sdrawinski [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann[es], age 10¼; Christina, age 7) along with his wife's sister Anna [surname not recorded] (age 20) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Гданьская Надежда (Gdansk Hope) under the command of Skipper Johann Erdmann Geske.
Michael Zdrawinski [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann, age 10½; Christina, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Husaren in Household No. 22. They had arrived in Husaren on 17 February 1767.
Johannes Strawinski and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Husaren in Household No. Hn27.
The death of Johannes Strawinski in 1826 [?] is recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 69 along with a note that his son Heinrich had relocated to the colony of Preuss.
Heinrich Strawinski from Husaren and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Preuss in Household No. 47.
Widower Johannes Strawinski married 6 February 1828 in Preuss to the widow Katharina Giovanelli. [See Giovanelli Family.]
The birth of a son to Johannes Strawinski & Katharina Giovanelli is recorded in the parish register of Preuss: Johannes, born 29 April 1829.
In 1795, Kaspar Strawinski, presumed son of Johannes Strawinski, moved from Husaren to Franzosen.
Kaspar Strawinski and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz40.
Kaspar Strowinski from Franzosen and his son are recorded on the 1811 census of Hölzel in Household No. 47 along with a note that they had arrived in Hölzel from Franzosen in 1811.
The death of Kaspar Strawinski in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Hölzel in Household No. 15.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Sdrawinski [sic] came from the German village of Stargard. The 1767 census records that Michael Zdrawinski [sic] came from the region of Danzig in Prussia.
- 1811 Hölzel Census (Household No. 47).
- 1834 Hölzel Census (Household No. 15).
- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 69).
- 1834 Preuss Census (Household No. 47).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 84.
- 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): Hn27, Fz40, Mv1037.
- Parish register of Husaren.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 169.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #327.
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