Johann Burkhardt Bock, son of Johann Berghard Bock & his first wife Anna Margaretha Waller, was born 13 September 1745 (baptized 15 September 1745). His half-sister Anna Christina Bock, daughter of Johann Berghard Bock & his second wife Anna Margaretha Braun, was born 26 January 1753 (baptized 28 January 1753). They were both baptized at the Lutheran Church in Altenhaßlau.
Burckhard Bock & Magdal. Stock were married on 5 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Büdingen. Christine Bock & Friedrich Krebs were also married in the Lutheran Church in Büdingen on 7 March 1766.
Johann Bock, a farmer, his wife Magdalena arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18.
The widow and daughter of Burghardt Bock are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk041.
Johann Burchard Bock is recorded on the list of immigrants by Johann Facius: Actum Aufenau den 13 ten Februar 1766 Johann Burchard Bock, 24 Jahre alt, von Großhauß, ledigen Standes, versprochen mit Anna Magdalena Stock, 22 Jahre alt, ledig, ein guter Ackermann, evang. Relig. [Gathering at Aufenau on 13 February 1766 was Johann Burchard Bock, 24-years-old, from Großhauß, single, engaged to Anna Magdalena Stock, 22-years-old, single, a good farmhand, Lutheran].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Bock came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bock family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 106.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Fk041.
- 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): #370, #384.
- Parish register of Altenhaßlau.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 422.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #543.
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