Johannes Zilch married in Ronshausen on 24 February 1717 to Anna Gela Becker.
Their son Johann Georg Zilch was confirmed in Ronshausen in 1746.
The baptism of a son born to Johann Georg & Katharina Elisabeth Zilch is recorded in the parish register of Ronshausen: Johann Valentin, baptized 22 March 1764.
Johann Georg Zilg, his wife Katharina, and sons (Johann, age 6; Valentin, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 145.
Johann Georg Zilch and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 151.
In 1798, Johann Heinrich Zilg moved from Norka to Kolb.
Heinrich Zilch and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Kolb in Household No. 29.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Zilg was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Georg Zilg came from the German region of Hessen.
This surname is recorded as Zilch and Zilg on various documents.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 151).
- 1811 Kolb Census (Household No. 29).
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 158).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 462.
- 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): Ko29, Nr158, Mv2027.
- Parish register of Ronshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 268.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3606.
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