Johannes Sitz, a potter (Potzellanmacher), and his wife Anna arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
Michael Sitz, a single mirror maker (Spiegelmacher), is recorded on the 1767 census of Bettinger in Household No. 33 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Orlovskaya in 1768. He had arrived in Bettinger on 3 August 1767.
The death of Michael Sitz in 1830 is recorded on the 1834 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 92.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Sitz came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Michael Sitz came from the German village of Undeit.
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): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 58.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Or65.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 138.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #111.
Brent Mai