Gottfried Koch, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 13; Christoph, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Gottfrid [sic] Koch, his wife Anna Rosina, and sons (Joh. Gottfried, age 13; Christp. Gottlob, age 4) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Rosina and son Christp. Gottlob died in route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767. Gottfried is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2 along with a new wife and some of her children [surname not recorded].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Koch came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Gottfried Koch came from the German village of Leipzig in the Sachsen (Saxony) region.
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- 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): Bx46.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1402.
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Brent Mai