Magnus [sic] Knauf (age 22), an orphan, settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52 along with the Thomas Reger family. No relationship between the Reger and Knauf family is recorded on the 1767 census.
In 1785, Mattias Knauf and his wife moved from Mariental to the Caucasus.
The death of Christina Knauf, presumed wife of Mattias Knauf, is recorded in the parish register of Herzog on 26 November 1793 at the recorded age of 52.
Elisabeth Knauf, daughter of Mattias Knauf, is recorded on the 1798 census of Herzog in Household No. Hr30.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Knauf family among the Volga German colonies.
- Herzog parish register.
- 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): Hr30, Mv1629.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 108.
Brent Mai