Götz (Huck)*

There are two men named Christoph Götz who are recorded on the list of immigrants by Johann Facius: 

Actum Aufenau den 20 Dezember 1765:
Christoph Götz, aus Wächterbach, mit Frau und eine erwachsene Tochter, ein guter Ackermann, reform. Relig.
Christoph Götz, aus Wächterbach, mit Frau und 2 Kinder, ein guter Ackermann, reform. Relig.

[Gathering at Aufenau on 20 December 1765: Christoph Götz from Wächterbach with his wife and an adult daughter, a good farmhand, Reformed; Christoph Götz from Wächterbach with his wife and 2 children, a good farmhand, reformed.]

These two men and their families settled in the Volga German colony of Huck. Neither of them had any male descendants, so the surname did not continue in Huck.  They did travel together to Russia, but it is unknown whether these two are related to each other.

(1) Christoph and Katharina Götz and their two daughters (Katharina, age 2¼; Christina, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.

Only the two girls appear to have survived the journey to the colonies, as they are recorded on the 1767 census of Huck living in Household No. 31 with Johann Heinrich Neu and his mother, Anna Margaretha. There is probably a relationship between the Götz and Neu families, but exactly what relationship is unknown at this time.

(2) Another Christoph Götz and his wife Eleonora and their 30-year-old daughter Cunigunda also arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the same ship.

It is possible that this Christoph is the father of the first one.  This Christoph also does not survive the trip to the colonies.

The daughter, Cunigunda, married the widowed Wilhelm Sittner, and she and her mother are recorded with his family on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 40.