Heinrich Jacob König, son of Andreas König, was born 9 January 1713 and baptized 12 January 1713 in Quellendorf.
Dorothea Maria Schumann, daughter of Samuel Schumann, was born 25 September 1715 and baptized 1 October 1715 in Quellendorf.
Heinrich Jacob König married on 12 February 1741 in Quellendorf to Dorothea Maria Schumann.
The baptisms of eight children born to Heinrich Jacob König & Dorothea Maria Schumann are recorded in the parish register of Quellendorf: (1) Johann Christian, born 23 November 1741, baptized 28 November 1741; (2) Johann Christoph, born 11 September 1743, baptized 16 September 1743; (3) Johann Andreas, born 12 July 1745, baptized 13 July 1745, died 6 September 1745; (4) Johann Jacob, born 1 August 1746, baptized 4 August 1746; (5) an unnamed daughter, stillborn 4 August 1751; (6) Johann Georg, born 11 August 1752, baptized 13 August 1752, died 24 April 1753; (7) Regina Louisa Gerdrauta, born 20 January 1754, baptized 22 January 1754; and (8) Johann Martin, born 19 January 1756, baptized 22 January 1756.
An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:
Jacob König, a tenant (Mietsmann), with his wife and 4 children (two sons & two daughters), from Quellendorf.
Jakob König, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Christoph, age 24; Christian, age 22; Louisa, age 10¼; Maria, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Jacob Koenig, his wife Maria, and children (Christoph [age not recorded], Christoph [age not recorded]; Louisa Regina, age 10; Maria Sophia, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisrous and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 25 (son Christian) & 86 (father Jakob).
In 1773, widow Anna Sophia König left Boisroux and married Gottfried Frick in Beauregard. Her son Christoph went with her.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob König came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Jakob König came from the German village of Quellendorf in the region of Dessau.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 224.
- 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): Bo12, Bx32, Mv0281.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #6094-6097.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1103.
- Parish register of Quellendorf.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 145, 160.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1579.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1262-1265.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 87.
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