Balthasar Götz, a single butcher, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Balzer Götz, a butcher, and his wife settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 Jun 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41.
The Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census records that Balthasar Götz came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Wiesbaden in the region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Götz family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 384.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 471.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2932.
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