Peter Bock, son of Johannes & Johanna Bock of Tüntingen, married on 12 January 1751 to Maria Margaretha Scheer, daughter of Peter Scheer & Elisabetha Gertruda Bollinger.
The following children were born to Peter Bock & Maria Margaretha Scheer: (1) Michael, baptized 12 September 1751; (2) Johannes, baptized 7 April 1754; (3) Peter, baptized 26 October 1756; and (4) Katharina, baptized 7 March 1759.
Maria Margaretha Bock née Scheer died 27 March 1759.
Widower Peter Bock remarried on 29 January 1760 to Elisabetha Weller, daughter of Mathias & Eva Weller.
Peter Bock, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and son Peter (age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
Peter is recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 121 along with a note that Elisabeth died during the transport to the Volga region. Peter settled in Brabander on 13 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Bock came from the German region of Lothringen. The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Bock came from the German village of Tiegen [Tüntingen] in Lothringen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bock 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): 397.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 240.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3051.
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