Johann Knaub, a farmer, immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in the city of Schleswig on 20 May 1761 as the servant of Heinrich Krämer.
The marriage of Johannes Knaub from Hessen-Darmstadt to Maria Sara Gries is recorded in the parish register of Kropp [Denmark] on 2 July 1761. They swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 24 July 1761.
On 8 August 1761, they are recorded on the register of the farm "Struensee" in the Danish colony of Die Königsberge. On 29 July 1762, they moved to the colony of Christiansholm.
The parish register of Hohn [Denmark] records the baptisms of two children born to Johannes Knaub & Sara Gries: (1) Anna Catharina, baptized 13 September 1764; and (2) Johann Jürgen, baptized 31 October 1765.
The Knaub family deserted the Danish colonies on 20 March 1766 and joined the migration to Russia.
Johann[es] Knaub, a farmer, his wife Sarah, and son Johann [age 4] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 3 June 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Johannes Knaub, a farmer, his [new] wife Anna Elisabeth, his son by his first wife Johann Heinrich (age 6), and stepchildren (Johann Peter [Ertel], age 5; Philippina Margaretha [Ertel], age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schäfer in Household No. 46. [See Ertel Family.] They had arrived in Schäfer on 25 May 1767.
In 1788, Heinrich Knaup moved from Schäfer to Mariental.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Knaub came from the German region of Darmstadt. The Eichhorns record that Johann Knaub came from the German Landgrafschaft of Hessen-Darmstadt.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-837.
- 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): Mt45, Sf10, Sf17, Mv2519.
- Parish register of Hohn [Denmark].
- Parish register of Kropp [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 101.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #673.
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