Johann Peter Walter and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Grimm and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 60.
They are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 136.
Widower Johann Philipp Walter from Grimm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 63.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Peter Walter was a farmer while the 1767 census records that Peter Walter was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Peter Walter came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 136).
- 1857 Oberdorf Census (Household No. 63).
- 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): 646.
- 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): Gm005.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 81.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5190.
Brent Mai