Elisabeth [Walter] (age 21), a single woman, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair along with Widow Anna Butterweck and her daughter Maria (age 7). A relationship between Walter and Butterweck is not recorded.
Elisabeth Walter (age 21) is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with Anna Butterweck and her daughter Maria Catharina (age 7).
Elisabeth Walter is recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 5 as the wife of Johann Nikolaus Freiberger.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Walter family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 212.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1464.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0956-0958.
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