Wolf (Dönhof)

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Wolf (Dönhof)
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Brothers Andreas and Johann [Wilhelm] Wolf, both single, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Mathias under the command of Skipper David Wollert.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 82 & 83.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Wolf is a mechanic while the 1767 census records that both Andreas and Wilhelm are farmers.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Wolf brothers are from the German region of Darmstadt.

Sources: 

- 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): Dh016, Dh035.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 363.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1878.

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Volga Colonies