Johann Jacob Gies, a salt maker (Saltzsieder) & son of Johannes Gies, married in Büdingen on 24 April 1749 to Girtraut Böcher, daughter of Johann Wilhelm Böcher from Glauberg.
The baptisms of the following children to Jacob Gies & Girtraut Böcher are recorded in the parish register of Büdingen: (1) Johann Valentin, baptized 4 June 1752; (2) Johann Caspar, baptized 24 November 1754.
Girtraut Gies née Böcher died on 13 July 1758. Jacob remarried on 27 September 1759 in Düdelsheim to Anna Maria Glitscher, daughter of Joachim & Anna Margaretha Glitscher. She had been born 2 February 1731 in Düdelsheim.
The baptisms of the following children born to Jakob Gies & Anna Maria Glitscher are recorded in the parish register of Büdingen: (1) Heinrich, baptized 23 March 1761; and (2) [Johannes] Christian, baptized 6 October 1762. The baptism of a third son is recorded in the parish register of Düdelsheim: (3) Johann Jost, baptized 26 September 1765.
Jakob Gies, a carpenter, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 15; Kaspar, age 10¼; Heinrich, age 6; Christian, age 4; Gustav, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 June 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Святой Николай (St. Nicolaus) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.
Jakob Gies, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Maria, and sons (Johann Valentin, age 16; Johann Kaspar, age 14; Christian, age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 28. They had settled in Moor on 18 June 1767.
(1) Widow Anna Maria Gies and her grandsons (sons of the deceased son Christian Gies) are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo04.
Johann Friedrich Gies, his brother Johann Michael Gies, and Johann Michael's family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 4.
(2) Son Kaspar and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo16.
The death of Kaspar Gies in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 19.
(3) Son Valentin and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo34.
Johann Kaspar Gies, son of Valentin Gies, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 43.
Christian Gies, son of Valentin Gies, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 35.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Gies came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 1834 Moor Census (Households No. 4, 19, 35, 43).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 179.
- 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): Mo04, Mo16, Mo34.
- Parish register of Büdingen (LDS Films #1197020, #1197023).
- Parish register of Düdelsheim (LDS Film #1201789).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 162.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1178.
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner