Friedrich [Wilhelm] Koch, a single cabinetmaker (Tischler), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and married Maria Dorothea, the widow of Asmus Göbel. They and the surviving younger Göbel children are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 51.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich [Wilhelm] Koch came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Magdeburg.
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): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 178.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 329.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1175.
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