The parish register of St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Magdeburg records that Mathias Mathes from the region of Elsberg married on 6 May 1766 to Maria Barbara Zimmer from Grul [?].
Mattias Mathres [sic], a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 26 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 105.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mattias Mathres [sic] came from the German region of Schwaben (Swabia). The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Petting in the region of Schwaben (Swabia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mathes family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 402.
- Parish register of St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Magdeburg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 237.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3097.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Magdeburg recording the marriage (#2) of Mathias Mathes to Maria Barbara Zimmer on 6 May 1766 along with several other couples moving to Russia.
Source: Anonymous2.