Heinrich Jacob Noß, son of Johann Heinrich Noß, was baptized in Wolf on 21 March 1717.
Heinrich Jacob Noß married in Bindsachsen on 17 January 1743 to Juliana Politch (from Usenborn), widow of Georg Braun from Bindsachsen.
Juliana died in Bindsachsen on 18 January 1744 (at age 44).
Widower Heinrich Jacob Noß remarried on 9 December 1744 in Wenings to the widow Elisabetha Link from Wenings. Elisabetha had been born in Seemen.
The baptisms of the following children born to Heinrich Jacob & Elisabetha Noß are recorded in the parish register of Wenings: (1) Johanna Elisabetha, baptized 14 December 1745; (2) Johann Georg, baptized 10 December 1747; (3) Johann Georg Ernst, baptized 28 June 1750; (4) Johannes, born 19 November 1755, baptized 23 November 1755; and (5) Johann Heinrich, born 25 December 1758, baptized 26 December 1758.
Johann Jakob Nuss, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 21; Johann Georg, age 20; Georg Ernst, age 18; Johanna Amalia, age 16; Johann, age 11; Johann Heinrich, age 8) arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Joh. Jacob Nuss, his wife Anna Elisab., and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 23; Joh. Georg, age 21; Georg Ernst, age 20; Anna Maria, age 17 Johannes, age 11; Joh. Heinrich, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Joh. Jacob died en route.
Widow Anna Elisabeth Nuss, a farmer's wife, and her children (Elisabeth, age 22; Johann Georg, age 20; Georg Ernst, age 18; Anna Magdalena, age 16; Johannes, age 12; Johann Heinrich, age 10) settled in the Volga German colony of Messer on 14 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 88.
The 1798 census of Dobrinka records son Georg Ernst Nuss there in Household No. Db40.
The 1798 census of Müller records son Johannes Nuss there in Household No. Ml01.
The 1798 census of Merkel records the widow and children of son Heinrich Nuss of Messer in Household No. Mr14.
The 1834 census of Franzosen records Wilhelm Nuss from Messer in Household No. 74.
Peter Nuss from Franzosen and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg in Household No. 91.
Johann Adam Nuss from Müller and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Stephan in Household No. 32.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that this Nuss family came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1834 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 50).
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Household No. 74).
- 1834 Stephan Census (Household No. 32).
- 1850 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 64).
- 1857 Rosenberg Census (Household No. 91).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 717.
- 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): Db40, Ml01, Mr14, Ms24.
- Parish register of Bindsachsen.
- Parish register of Wenings.
- Parish register of Wolf (LDS Film #1201845).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 152.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5733.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7897-7904.
Mike Meisinger
Brent Mai