Bartholomè Mons [sic] & Helena Völcker were married on 11 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Bartholomaeus Mors [sic], a farmer, and his wife Helena arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 10 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18 along with the orphaned Simon Siefert (age 12), son of the deceased Jakob Siefert. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Manz and Siefert families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Bartholomaeus Mors [sic] came from Luxembourg while the 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Fulda.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Manz family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 410.
- 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): #410.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 364.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3181.
Brent Mai