The baptisms of the following children born to Johannes & Maria Sybilla Grosch are recorded in the parish register of Heßloch; (1) Johannes, baptized 29 August 1733; (2) Anna Maria, baptized 31 October 1735; (3) Johann Philipp, baptized 21 November 1736; (4) Johann Michael, baptized 16 November 1737; (5) Johann Jacob, baptized 17 February 1739; (6) Catharina, baptized 27 August 1740; (7) Maria Salome, baptized 12 October 1741; (8) Anna Maria, baptized 4 October 1744; (9) Catharina, baptized 14 December 1745; (10) Johann Matthias, baptized 22 September 1747; and (11) Johann Heinrich, baptized 9 June 1749.
Son Johannes married on 22 July 1760 Heßloch to Maria Elisabeth Falkenstein née Betzel, the widow of Anton Falkenstein. [See Falkenstein Family.]
Johann Grosch, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and step-daughters (Maria Elisabeth [Falkenstein], age 20; Magdalena [Falkenstein], age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 21. They had arrived in Schuck on 18 July 1766.
The 1767 census records that Johann Grosch came from the German village of Heßloch in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Grosch family among the Volga German colonies.
- Parish register of Hessloch (LDS Film No. 948719).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 115.
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