According to a publication by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia titled "File on Those Colonists Departing in 1773; also about their dispatch to Saratov under escort of Kontora Cavalry Seargeant-Major Gomolka and the discharge of several colonists upon payment; No. 25882," the family of Martin Winter was from the German village of Neuhausen.
Martin Winter (age 24, Reformed), a farmer from Neuhausen, and his wife Elisabeth Frank (age 34, Catholic) arrived in St. Petersburg from Lübeck aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Marcau on 29 May 1773. A note records that they lost an unnamed child during the voyage.
Johann Martin Winter and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml13.
The death of Martin Winter in 1816 is recorded on the 1834 census of Müller in Household No. 14.
- 1834 Müller Census (Household 14).
- Ger-Volga-L on Rootsweb (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ger-volga/2009-11/1258657363).
- 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): Ml13.
Brent Mai