Michael Gos, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Katharina Elisabeth, and daughters (Anna Margaretha, age 10¼; Katharina Elisabeth, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Johann Michel Huss [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Michael Gos (age 37), a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Katharina (age 19), and children by his first wife (Anna Margaretha, age 11; Katharina Elisabeth, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 71. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Michael Gos came from the region of Stuttgart.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gos family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 273.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 332.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1984.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1753.
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