Gottfried Mais [sic] from Dehrn, son of Johannes Gottfried Mais, married on 20 February 1757 to Anna Katharina Dietrich, widow of Johannes Dietrich Ehemann from Werschau. The baptism of the following child born to Gottfried Mais & Anna Katharina Dietrich is recorded in the parish register of Werschau: Johannes, born 13 January 1758, baptized 15 January 1758, died 6 April 1759.
Anna Katharina Mais née Dietrich died on 18 June 1758. Widower Gottfried Mais of Werschau remarried on 28 November 1758 to Anna Margaretha Stand, daughter of Johannes Stand of Lindenholzhausen.
The baptisms of the following children born to Gottfried Maas & Anna Margaretha Stand are recorded in the parish register of St. Jakobus Catholic Church in Lindenholzhausen: (1) Anna Katharina, born 8 December 1759; and (2) Joseph, born 20 October 1763.
Gottfried Matz [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 8; Joseph, age 3) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov along with his single brother-in-law Jakob Staub. [See Staub Family.]
Gottfried Matz [sic], a cartwright (Wagonbauer), his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Katharina Christina, age 8; Jakob, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 39. They had arrived in Preuss on 12 May 1767.
Gottfried Maas and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps35.
Katharina Becker née Maas (age 39) and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps37.
The death of Gottfried Maas (age 71) of Preuss is recorded on 18 August 1803 in the parish register of Preuss.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Matz [sic] came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that Gottfried Matz [sic] came from the German village of Holzhausen in the Kurtrier region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Maas family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 113.
- 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): Ps35, Ps37.
- Parish register of Lindenholzhausen.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Parish register of Werschau.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 418.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #607.
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