Batt / Bath

Hans Georg Bath, son of Hans Georg & Eva Maria Bath, was born 25 Feb 1714 in Rheinbischofsheim. He married Elisabeth Walther on 23 Jan 1743. The baptisms of three children born to Hans Georg Bath & Elisabeth Walther are recorded in the parish register of Rheinbischofsheim: (1) Christina, born 23 November 1754; (2) David, born 21 June 1756; and (3) Michael, born 3 October 1758.

Hans Georg Bath, a farmer, his [new?] wife Barbara, and children (Hans, age 20; Christina, age 12; David, age 11; Michael, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 on a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Nikolai (St. Nicholas) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.

Johann Georg Batt, a farmer, his wife Eva, and children (Christina, age 13; David, age 12; Michael, age 10) are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. 9. They had arrived in Dietel on 1 July 1767.

Michael Batt later moved to Frank.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Georg Batt came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Batt came from "Bis zu Gottenstein" in the Darmstadt region.