Johann Adam Baitz, son of Andreas Baitz (a cattle herder & farmhand), married on 19 August 1757 in the Evangelical Church of Georgenhausen to Christina Barbara Berg, daughter of Philipp Simon Berg & Anna Margaretha Dönges. Christina Barbara had been born on 29 May 1730, and baptized on 30 May 1730 in the Evangelical Church of nearby Spachbrücken.
The baptisms of two children born in nearby Dilshofen to Johann Adam Baitz & Christina Barbara Berg are recorded in the parish register of Georgenhausen: (1) an unnamed son who died on 21 December 1763; and (2) Maria Barbara, born 12 May 1763, baptized on 15 May 1763.
Adam Beitz, a farmer, his wife Christina, and children (Maria, age 4; Johann, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Holstein on 7 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 39.
Johann Adam Beitz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Holstein in Household No. Ho33.
Maria Barbara Kölln née Beitz and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz41.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Beitz came from the German region of Darmstadt.
Descendants of this family generally use the spelling of Beitz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 375.
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Dilshofen (online).
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Georgenhausen (online).
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Spachbrücken (online).
- 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): Fz41, Ho33, Mv2771.
- Parish register of Spachbrücken (LDS Film No. 1190550).
- Parish register of Georgenhausen (LDS Film No. 1190558).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 135.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2851.
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