Widow Katharina Götz and her son Andreas (age 25) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov along with other colonists who settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter.
Andreas Götz, a single man, is recorded on the 1767 census of Kutter in Household No. 1 along with the Christoph Brehning family and two other boys (Johann Georg Ruhl, age 6 & Johann Jost Kroll, age 18). The 1767 census does not record relationships among the Götz, Brehning, Ruhl, and Kroll families.
In 1768, Andreas Götz moved from Kutter to Grimm. They are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 90 along with stepchildren (Johannes & Maria Elisabeth Braum and Jakob Lochmann).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Götz came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Würzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Götz family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 90).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 319.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 476.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2350.
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