Justus Deus [sic], his wife Anna, and children (Michael, age 19; Heinrich, age 15; Johann, age 11; Jakob, age 7; Katharina, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Abraham Sonnenblatt is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 21 along with his [new] wife and her children (Karl [Deus], age 15; Heinrich [Deus], age 12; Michael [Deus], age 10; Jakob [Deus], age 7; Katharina [Deus], age 3). The 1767 census also recorded a note that the family relocated to the Volga German colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.
Johann Michael Deis (age 17) and his brother Jakob Deis (age 16) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 33 along with their mother, stepfather (Christian Faust). [See Faust Family.]
[a] Heinrich Deis from Katharinenstadt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bettinger in Household No. Bt38.
Johann Jakob Deis, son of Heinrich Deis, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Bettinger in Household No. 78.
[b] Michael Teist [sic] from Schaffhausen and his family (including sons Johann Christian, age 16; Heinrich, age 9; Justus, age 7; Johann Peter, age 5) are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka151.
The 1834 census of Katharinenstadt records Heinrich Deis in Household No. 190.
The 1850 census of Katharinenstadt records Heinrich Deis and his family in Household No. 258.
The 1857 census of Katharinenstadt records Heinrich Deis and his family in Household No. 280 along with a note that he died in 1854.
The 1873 census of Katharinenstadt records Justus Deis (born 13 July 1841), son of Heinrich Deis, and his family in Household No. 478.
The 1834 census of Katharinenstadt records Justus Deis in Household No. 195.
The 1850 census of Katharinenstadt records Justus Deis and his family in Household No. 265.
The 1857 census of Katharinenstadt records Justus Deis and his family in Household No. 290.
The death of Justus Deis (born 1791) is recorded in the Katharinenstadt parish register in 1865.
The 1834 census of Katharinenstadt records Christian Deis in Household No. 309.
The 1834 census of Katharinenstadt records Peter Deis in Household No. 358.
[c] Jakob Deis from Schaffhausen and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka036.
The death of Jakob Deis in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 39.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann Michael & Jakob Deis were both born in the German village of Konholsdorf in the Hessen region.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 33).
- 1834 Bettinger Census (Household No. 78).
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 190, 195, 309, 358).
- 1850 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 258, 265).
- 1857 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 280, 290).
- 1873 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 478).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 863.
- Katharinenstadt Parish Register.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bt38, Ka036, Ka151.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 209.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7015.
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