Johann Michael Butz, his wife Anna Katharina, and his children (Andreas, age 17; Armegast, age 15; Philipp Peter, age 11; Hans Georg, age 10; Katharina, age 8; Gottfried, age 4; Philipp Hendrik, age 2; and Margaretha, age 1) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Fridericia on 1 May 1760. They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 7 January 1765.
Johann Butz, a house painter, his wife Anna, and children (Andreas, age 19; Armergast [sic], age 16¼; Philipp, age 14; Georg, age 12; Anna, age 10¼; Gottfried, age 6; Georg Heinrich, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
They are recorded there on the 1775 census of Beideck in Households No. 32, 74, & 76.
The 1798 census of Schilling records Gottfried Butz (age 38) in Household No. Sg004.
The Eichhorns record that Johann Michael Butz came from the German region of Degenfeld. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Butz came from the German region of Pfalz.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (Nos. 32, 74, & 76).
- 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-201.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 67.
- 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): Bd08, Bd47, Bd65, Bd75, Sg004.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #177.
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