Heinrich Horch, a single hosier (Strumpfwirker), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johann Heinrich Horch (age 22), a hosier (Strumpfwirker), his [new] wife Katharina Susanna (age 20), and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 4-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 163. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
Johannes Horch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. St24.
Descendants of this family are recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Households No. 9, 31, 63, 103, 116.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Horch came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Gorg came from the German village of Michelbach in the Hanau region.
- 1834 Stahl am Tarlyk Census (Households No. 9, 31, 63, 103, 116).
- 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): 138.
- 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): St24, Wr038, Wr119.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 346.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #823.
Brent Mai