Philipp Jakob, son of Peter & Catharina Jakob, was born 2 July 1723 in Hüttengesäß.
He married there on 27 November 1754 to Maria Catharina Diehl, daughter of Wilhelm Diehl. She had been born in Hüttengesäß on 23 May 1737.
Philipp Jakob, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and sons (Wilhelm, age 10¼; Johann, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
The parents died. The boys are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 79 along with Philipp Brotzmann and his wife. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Jakob and Brotzmann families although both came from Hüttengesäß.
Wilhelm Jakob, presumed son of Philipp Jakob, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg080.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Jakob came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 395.
- 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): Sg080.
- Parish register of Hüttengesäß.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 95.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3014 [should be #3024].
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner