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Walter (Unknown-2)*

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Spelling Variations: 
Вальтеръ (Unknown-2)*
Walter (Unknown-2)*
Walder (Unknown)*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Discussion & Documentation: 

Widow Anna Walder [sic] and her son Gottlieb (age 4½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Anna Walder [sic] and her son Gottlieb (age 4½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Gottlieb Walter (age 5) is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies in Household No. 9 along with his stepfather Christoph Konrad.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The 1767 census does not record from where Gottlieb Walter came.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Walter family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Oranienbaum passenger list #6741 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 351.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4129-4130.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of widow Anna Walder and her son Gottlieb.
Source: Brent Mai.

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