Johann Heinrich Knobloch & Maria Elisabeth Zulauf, widow of Mr. Zulauf, married 10 April 1766 in Büdingen.
Johann [Heinrich] Knobloch, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Kronverk under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Knobloch came from the German region of Riedesel. Plehve's translation of the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Wollmar in the Riedesel region, but other translations record the name of the village as Valme which was northwest of Wollmar and not in a territory ruled by the Riedesel family.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Knobloch family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #510.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 180.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2730.
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