Johann Conrad Storck, son of Crantz Storck from Reinhards, married on 22 August 1730 in Hintersteinau to Anna Margaretha Lindt, daughter of Jörg Ludwig Lindt of Reinhards.
The Hintersteinau parish register records the baptisms of the following children born to Johann Conrad Storck & Anna Margaretha Lindt: (1) Anna Margaretha, born 8 May 1733, baptized 10 May 1733; (2) Elisabetha, born & baptized 29 February 1736; (3) Jörg Ludwig, born 29 May 1740, baptized 30 May 1740; (4) Johannes, born 24 August 1743, baptized 26 August 1743; and (5) Johannes [again], born 8 July 1751, baptized 11 July 1751.
Mother Anna Margaretha Storck née Lindt died on 22 October 1759. Widower Johann Conrad Storck remarried on 17 March 1763 in Gundhelm to Anna Elisabetha Waiß, daughter of Johannes Waiß. The baptism of one daughter is recorded in Gundhelm: Anna Eva, born 23 March 1764, baptized 25 March 1764.
Anna Elisabeth Waiß also had an illegitimate daughter Anna Catharina Waiß who had been born 25 August 1757 and baptized 27 August 1757 in Gundhelm.
Konrad Storck, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 23; Johannes, age 16¼; Anna [Waiß], age 8; Eva, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder along with son [Georg] Ludwig Stork, a farmer, and his wife Anna.
Konrad Storck died, and his widow Anna Elisabeth Storck née Waiß remarried to Johann Georg Frank.
The combined Frank / Storck family is recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 60. They had arrived in Anton on 1 September 1767. [See Frank Family.]
Johann Ludwig Storck [sic] and his wife Anna Margretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. They are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 57. They had arrived in Anton on 1 September 1767.
Johann & Cathrina Elisabeth Storck are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. Johannes and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 50. They had arrived in Anton on 1 September 1767.
In 1790, Johannes Storck and his family moved from Anton to Straub.
The widow and children (Johann Georg, age 10; Katharina Elisabeth, age 8; Johann Adam, age 7; Peter Anton, age 4) are recorded on the 1798 census of Straub in Household No. Sr23.
Johann Georg Storck and his brothers (Johann Adam & Peter Anton) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 23 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
Georg Storck and his brothers (Johann Adam & Peter Anton) are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 19.
Recruiter Johann Facius records that Conrad Stork, age 50, and his family came from Hutten Ambt. Brandenstein. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that the Stork family came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that they came from the German region of Hanau.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 23).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Household No. 19).
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: 2024): 813.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): An23, An25, An26, Bz067, Sr23, Mv0010.
- Parish register of Gundhelm, including Hutten.
- Parish register of Hintersteinau, including Reinhards.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 67, 68, 69.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6506, #6509.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8346-8347, #8588-8589.
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