Franz Winter, a farmer, his wife Anna [Maria Leonhard], and son Johann (age 1-month-old) arrived from Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 30 May 1766 aboard the pink Novaya Dvinka under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 20 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 63.
Anton Winter from Göbel and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 18.
The 1767 census records that Franz Winter came from the German village of Oberroth in the Kurmainz region.
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 18).
- 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): Gb26, Gb40, Gb42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 55.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #477.
Brent Mai
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