Christoph Timler, a farmer, his wife Maria Anna, and their daughter Franziska (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
Christoph's wife an daughter died, and he remarried to Dorothea. They settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 5 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40 along with stepdaughter Johanna [surname not recorded] (age 10). The 1767 census includes a note that they relocated to the colony of Straub in 1768.
The 1798 census of Stahl am Tarlyk records Magdalena, the widow of Vitius [sic] Timler in Household No. St26.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Timler came from the German region of Ansbach. The 1767 census records that Christoph Timler came from the German village of Klesinberg [?] in the Ansbach region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 706.
- 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): Ps87, St26, St52.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 46.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5644.
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