Emich / Emig (Kind)

Johann Georg Emich, son of Johann Heinrich Emich & Anna Maria Bernhard, was born 5 September 1718 in Rodau. He married in Groß-Bieberau on 7 January 1745 to Maria Catharina Delp, daughter of Johann Nicolaus Delp & Anna Margaretha Dascher. Maria Catharina Delp had been born in Webern on 13 Marcy 1721.

The following children were born to Johann Georg Emich & Maria Catharina Delp: (1) Johann Adam, born 14 November 1745 in Rodau; (2) Johannes, born 9 September 1748 in Rodau; (3) Johann Nicolaus, born in 1750 in Rodau; (4) unnamed son, stillborn on 9 January 1754 in Rodau; (5) unnamed daughter, stillborn on 4 November 1754 in Meßbach; (6) unnamed daughter, stillborn on 2 June 1756 in Meßbach; and (7) unnamed son, stillborn on 1 April 1758 in Rodau.

Heinrich [sic] Emich, a miller (Müller), his wife Katharina, and sons (Johann [Adam], age 22; Johannes, age 20; Nikolaus, age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Joh. Georg Omig [sic], his [new] wife Anna Maria, and sons ([a] Adam, age 22; [b] Johannes, age 20; [c] Nicolaus, age 18) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both parents died in route.

[a] Johann Adam Emich [sic], a miller (Müller), his wife Anna, and his brother Johann Nikolaus (age 15) [perhaps her brother, surname not recorded?] are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 22.

Johann Adam Emich and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd25.

[b] Johannes Emich [sic], a miller (Müller), and his wife Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 23.

[c] Johann Nikolaus Emich [sic], a single farmer (age 20), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 128 along with a note that he settled in the colony of Kind in 1768.

Nikolaus Emig [sic] from Kind is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka145.

The descendants of Nikolaus Emig are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Households No. 67, 265, 266, & 311.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Emich [sic] and Johann Nikolaus Emich [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that the sons came from the German village of Rottau amt Ichtebeck [Rodau amt Lichtenberg]. The 1767 census records that Johann Nikolaus Emich [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt.