Christoph Gottlieb Walbe and his wife Theresia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Christoph Gottlieb Walbe, a Prussian Lieutenant, and his wife Theresa settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 117.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Gottlieb Walbe came from the German region of Böhmen (Bohemia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 840.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6774 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 301.
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