Johannes Betz, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Engelbert, age 17¼; Elisabeth Anna, age 11; Elisabeth, age 9; Peter, age 7; Philipp, age 5¼; Johann, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair. They arrrived in Oranienbaum with a single farmer, Johann Betz.
Johannes Beetz [sic], his wife Anna Christiana, and children (Engelbert, age 17¼; Anna, age 11; Elisabet, age 9; Peter, age 7; Philip, age 5¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the mother Anna Christiana and son Peter died en route. They are also recorded being transported with Heinr. Beetz [sic] who also died en route.
Widower Johann[es] Betz and his children (Engelbert, age 18; Anna Elisabeth, age 13; Elisabeth, age 10; Philipp, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 35. They had settled in Nieder-Monjou on 7 June 1767.
Engelbert Betz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm02.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Betz came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Betz came from the German village of Rheinberg.
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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): 216, 217.
- 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): Nm02.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 193.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1502, #1508.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1216-1223.
Brent Mai