Karl Geich, a cobbler, his wife Katharina, and children (Anna [Maria], age 14; [Anna] Elisabeth, age 12; [Anna] Margaretha, age 10¼; Albertina [Katharina Louisa], age 7; Ernestina [Louisa], age 3; [Johann] Andreas, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Widow Katharina and the children settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
Widow Anna Geich, age 60, is also recorded there in Household No. 37. She had arrived at Oranienbaum with Karl Geich and his family. She is believed to be the mother-in-law of the aforementioned Katharina Geich.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Karl Geich came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Katharina Reck came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 407, 408.
- 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): Hk89.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 149.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3152, #3154.
Brent Mai