Johann Koch, a weaver, his wife Maria, and son Johann (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Johann Koch, his [new] wife Maria Magdalena, and daughter Maria Dorothea (age 4-weeks) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 9.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Koch came from the German region of Stadt [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Koch family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Beideck Census (Household No. 9).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #236.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Koch and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.
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