Johann Hermann Knaus, son of the deceased Johann Heinrich Knaus of Düdelsheim, and Anna Margaretha Hoffmann, daughter of the deceased Johann Heinrich Hoffmann and Catharina Schäffer, were married in Hochst near Büdingen on 7 February 1737. Anna Margaretha had been baptized in Hochst on 3 June 1712.
The baptisms of two children born to Johann Hermann Knaus & Anna Margaretha Hoffmann are recorded on the parish registers of Düdelsheim & Diebach: (1) Anna Catharina, baptized 9 February 1738 in Düdelsheim; and (2) Johann Adam, baptized 22 October 1747 in Diebach. Daughter Anna Catharina married in Büdingen on 8 April 1766 to Martin Müller.
The Knaus family along with new son-in-law Martin Müller arrived at the port in Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766. Kuhlberg has recorded the Knaus surname incorrectly as Knauer.
Adam Knaus, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and widowed mother Anna Margaretha (age 55) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 37. They had arrived in Moor on 18 June 1767.
The Müller family, along with newborn son Adam (age ¾), are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 38.
The 1767 census records that Adam Knaus came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Bonner, Wayne H. Volga German Settlers Identified in Isenburg and Other German Church Records Part I (Gardena, CA: Wayne Bonner, 2007): 49-50.
- Diebach Parish Records (LDS Film No. 1201842).
- Hochst Parish Records (LDS Film No. 1201836).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Mo20.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): 63.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 165.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 99.
Wayne Bonner
Brent Mai