Johann Adam Adolph and Anna Margaretha Schwartz married in Hutzdorf on 6 March 1748. The births of 5 of their children are recorded in Hutzdorf: (1) Johann Conrad, born [before they were married] on 12 August 1747, baptized 13 August 1747; (2) Anna Barbara, born and baptized on 1 October 1751; (3) Anna Catharina, born 15 March 1754, baptized 18 March 1754; (4) Johann Heinrich, born 16 January 1757, baptized 18 January 1757, died 18 November 1760; and (5) Heinrich Wilhelm Adolph, born 7 July 1761, baptized 8 July 1761.
Adam Adolph, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Johann Konrad, age 20; Anna Barbara, age 18; Anna Katharina, age 14; Heinrich Wilhelm, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Konrad Adolph (age 50) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs009.
Barbara Ebert née Adolph (age 49) and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs003.
Katharina Suppes née Adolph (age 44) and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs111 along with her widowed mother Margaretha (age 74).
Heinrich Wilhelm Adolph (age 38) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs024.
There is also an Anna Barbara Herrmann née Adolph (age 39) and her family who are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 123. Her relationship, if any, to the other Adolphs needs further research.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Adolph came from the German region of Schlitz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 786.
- 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): Hs003, Hs009, Hs024, Hs111, Hs123.
- Parish register of Hutzdorf.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6289.
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Brent Mai