Heinrich Gausch, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johann Heinrich Gausch, a single man, is recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 61 along with the Adam Koch family. The census does not record a relationship between the Koch and Gausch families.
The 1798 census of Huck records Heinrich Gausch from Norka in Household No. Hk77.
Heinrich Gausch and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 77.
In 1863, descendants of this family from Huck relocated to the daughter colony of Brunnental.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Gausch came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1811 Huck Census (Household No. 77).
- Communion Register of Brunnental, 1870-1884.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 513.
- 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): Hk77.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 245.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4029.
Brent Mai