The parish register of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Reuth records the marriage of Johannes Amon, son of Johannes & Katharina Amon, on 4 June 1753 to Barbara Schuster, daughter of Leonard Schuster. [See Schuster Family.]
The baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Amon & Barbara Schuster are recorded in the parish register of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Reuth: (1) Maria Margaretha, baptized 22 January 1752; (2) Johannes, baptized 13 January 1755; (3) Kunigunda, baptized 17 October 1758; (4) Barbara, baptized 20 September 1760; (5) Georg, baptized 3 October 1762, died in infancy; and (6) Johannes Joseph, baptized 19 March 1765, died in infancy.
Hans Amen, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Hans, age 12; Kunigunda, age 9; Barbara, age 7; Georg, age 4; Johann, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Hans Amon [sic], his wife Barbara, and children (Hans, age 14; Cunigunda, age 10; Barbara, age 8; Georg, age 6; Johann, age ¾) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Hans and son Johann died en route.
Widow Barbara Amen evidently remarried to Johann Strobel and then died herself before the 1767 census. The Amen children (Johannes, age 15; Kunigunda, age 9; Barbara, age 7; Georg, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 66 as the stepchildren of Johann Strobel. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 19 August 1767.
Johann Amen (age 42) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz30.
The death of Johannes Aman (age 47) of Hölzel is recorded on 5 December 1803 in the parish register of Preuss.
Georg Amen and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk30.
The death of Georg Amen in 1828 is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 5.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Amen came from the German region of Bamberg.
- 1834 Hölzel Census (Households No. 3, 15, 39).
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 5).
- 1850 Hölzel Census (Households No. 4, 5, 30, 31, 70).
- 1857 Hölzel Census (Household No. 83).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 722.
- 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): Hz30, Nk30.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Parish register of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Reuth.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 75.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5764.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6401-6407.
Brent Mai
Anonymous2
Entry from the parish register of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Reuth recording the marriage of Johannes Amon & Barbara Schuster on 4 June 1753.
Source: Anonymous2.