Bernhard Hötzner, his wife Anna Barbara, and daughter Johanna (age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Bernhard Höltzner [sic], his wife Barbara, and daughter Johanna (age 19) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Bernhard Genzel [sic], a farmer, and his wife Barbara settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
There is a Widow Maria Margaretha Genzel née Bock recorded on the 1798 census of Hockerberg in Household No. Hb06. It is not known whether she is connected to Bernhard Genzel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Bernhard Hötzner came. The 1767 census records that Bernhard Genzel came from the German village of Ganter [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 846.
- 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): Hb06.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 195.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6848.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4439-4441.
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