Johannes Ochs, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughter Anna Magdalena (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 51. They had arrived in Anton on 1 September 1767.
Anna Margaretha Kisselmann née Ochs (age 30) and her brothers (Johannes, age 18; Heinrich, age 15) are recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An35 along with a note that Heinrich is working in Balzer. They are presumed to be the children of Johannes Ochs.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Ochs came from the German region of Hanau.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): An35.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 67.
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