Heinrich Koch & Maria Sabina Prösin [Bröse] were married on 11 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Heinrich Koch, a stonemason, his wife Anna Maria, and [step-]sons (Gottlieb [Bröse], age 7; Gottfried [Bröse?], age 4½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a Danish galliot named Der Engel Rafael (Archangel Raphael) under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
Heinrich Koch, a farmer, and his wife Maria Sabina settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29 along with stepson Gottlieb Bröse [erroneously recorded as Ries] (age 8).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Koch came from the German region of Prussia. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Koch came from the German region of Berlin.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Koch 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): 443.
- 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): #970.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 201.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3453.
Brent Mai