Johann Hinrich [sic] Klein & Agnes Loth were married on 1 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.
Johann Klein, a farmer, his wife Agness, children (Anna, age 12; Katharina, age 9; Johann, age 8), and sister Elisabeth (age 36) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Heinrich Klein, his wife Agness, and children (Elisabetha, age 13; Catharina, age 9½; Joh. Heinrich, age 8½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Klein, a farmer, his wife Agnessa, and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 13; Maria Katharina, age 10; Heinrich, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 82 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Schaffhausen in 1768. They had arrived in Kaneau on 3 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann [Heinrich] Klein came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Klein came from the German village of Wiederwellstadt [Nieder-Wöllstadt?] in the Riedesel region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 681.
- Mai, Brent Alan & Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767): Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #174.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 262.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5417.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3203-3207.
Brent Mai