Johann Andreas Zwickau married in 1717 to his first [unnamed] wife and had one son (Georg, born 1717) and one daughter (who died at 2-months old). This wife died in 1722, and he remarried in 1723 in Gödnitz to Dorothea Magdalena Bendel, daughter of the teacher (Kirchenlehrer) from Gödnitz. The following children were born to Johann Andreas Zwickau and Dorothea Magdalena Bendel: (1) Anna Eleonora, born 1723; (2) Johann Christian, born 6 January 1725; (3) Johann Jonas, born 17 January 1727; (4) Anna Sophia Elisabeth, born 1729, died 1736; (5) Jacob Friedrich, born 3 March 1731; (6) Elisabeth Frederica, born 1733, died 1736; (7) Maria Ether, born 1735, died 1737; (8) Gottlob Christian, born 1737, died 1739; (9) Johan Gottlob, born 1740, died 1754; (10) Johan Friedrich, born 20 June 1742; and (11) Johann Andreas, born 13 September 1745.
The parents and two sons migrated to Russia.
Johann [Andreas] Zwickau, a teacher, and his wife Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Andreas Zwickau and his wife Dorothea are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that they died along the way in Novgorod.
(1) Christian Zwickau, a single teacher, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair with his parents.
Christian Zwickau is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 14 along with his new wife Sophia.
Christian Zwickau, presumed to be the son of Christian Zwickau is recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx52 along with a note that he is working in Schaffhausen.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Swickau came from the German region of Zerbst. The 1767 census records that he was a Prussian Soldier (preußische Husar) from the village of Grobau.
(2) Andreas Zwickau, a hosier (Strumpfwirker), and his wife Susanna Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 97.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Andreas Zwickau came from the German region of Anhalt-Zerbst.
- 1834 Boisroux Census (Household No. 59).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29, 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 138, 219, 220.
- 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): Bx52.
- Parish register of Gödnitz.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 142.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 336.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #830, #1536, #1538.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1038-1040.
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