Johann Christoph Kaiser, son of Johann Kaiser, was born 18 February 1731 in Kaulstoß.
He married on 13 June 1752 to Julianna Junker, daughter of Johann Ludwig Junker of Kaulstoß. [See Junker Family.]
The births of the following children born to Johann Christoph Kaiser and Julianna Junker are recorded in the parish register of Kaulstoß: (1) Johann Ludwig, born 25 March 1753, died 12 June 1753; (2) Anna Maria, born 28 March 1754; (3) Johann Peter, born 5 July 1755; (4) Anna Catharina, born 14 September 1757; (5) Catharina, born 7 February 1759; and (6) Johann Ludwig, born 10 July 1761.
Johannes Kaiser, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 15; Johann [Peter], age 12; Katharina, age 7; and [Anna] Elisabeth, 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.
Johannes Kayser [sic], his wife Juliana, and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 18; Johann Peter, age 13; Cathrina, age 8; Elisabeth, age 5) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29.
Heinrich Kaiser from Yagodnaya Polyana and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Kaiser came from the German region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Nidda.
- 1857 Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 814-815.
- 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): Yp75.
- Parish register of Kaulstoß.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 180.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6520.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8467-8472.
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