Nikolaus Christ, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 6; Georg, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
Nicolaus Christ, his wife Anna Margreta, and sons (Johan Peter, age 6½; Johann Georg, age 4¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Wife Anna Margaretha remarried to Ludwig Rübling and is recorded with him on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 8 along with son Johann [Peter] (age 8). They had settled in Nieder-Monjou on 7 June 1767.
Widow Margaretha Rübling, her son by Nikolaus Christ ([Johann] Peter Christ, age 38), and the illegitimate son of [Johann] Peter Christ (Johann Martin Christ, age 7) are recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm37.
The death of Johann Peter Christ in 1802 is recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 37.
Johann Martin Christ is recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 37 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Katharinenstadt [year not recorded].
Johann Martin Christ is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 197 along with a note that he had been exiled from the colony in 1829.
The death of Johann Karl Christ, son of Johann Martin Christ, in 1833 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 197.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Christ came from the German region of Hannover.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Christ family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Nieder-Monjou Census (Household No. 37).
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 197).
- 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): Nm37.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 187.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3952.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6177-6180.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list (#3952) recording the arrival in Russia of Nikolaus Christ and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.
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