The births of the following children born to Melchior Ott & Susanna Baus have been located in the parish register of Höllrich: (1) Johannes, born 13 September 1746; (2) Johann Michael, born 17 April 1752; and (3) Friedrich, born 9 January 1755.
Melchior Ott, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and sons (Johann, age 20; Michael, age 16; Johann [Friedrich], age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
Widow Susanna Ott and her sons (Johannes, age 22; Johann Michael, age 16; Friedrich, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 30. They had arrived in Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767.
(1) Johannes Ott from Stahl am Karaman is recorded on the 1798 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. Ks115.
(2) Johann Michael Ott and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk12. A note on the 1798 census records that his son, also Johann Michael Ott, is living in Saratov training to be a joiner.
The death of [Johann] Michael Ott in 1811 is recorded on the 1811 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 12.
Georg Heinrich Ott, son of Michael Ott, is recorded on the 1811 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 12 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Rosenheim in 1802.
[Georg] Heinrich Ott from Stahl am Karaman is recorded on the 1811 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 43.
(3) Friedrich Otto [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm24. The death of Friedrich Ott in 1820 is recorded on the 1834 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 31.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Melchior Ott came from the German region of Dienheim while the 1767 census records that his children came from the German village of Querfurt [?].
- 1811 Rosenheim Census (Household No. 43).
- 1811 Stahl am Karaman Census (Household No. 12).
- 1834 Rosenheim Census (Household No. 31).
- 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): 389.
- 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): Ks115, Rm24, Sk12.
- Parish register of Höllrich.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 198.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2980.
Brent Mai
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