An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following:
Christian Bock with his wife and one child that died. He left his father behind. His married stepsister took over his debt-ridden house. She lives in Delitsch and is married to the [unnamed] rag picker (Lumpensammler) Bezink. Both Bock and his wife were born in Gohrau in the district of Dessau.
Research reported by David Schmidt revealed the following about this Bock couple.
Johann Christian Bock, son of Carl Gottlieb Bock from Gohrau, was born 22 September 1737 in Gohrau and baptized 25 September 1737 in Rehsen.
Johann Christian Bock married on 20 May 1764 in Riesigk to Dorothea Elisabeth Schmidt, daughter of Johann Christian Schmidt.
Dorothea Elisabeth Schmidt had been born 7 July 1745 and baptized 10 July 1745 in Rehsen. [See Schmidt Family.]
The baptism of one child born to Johann Christian Bock & Dorothea Elisabeth Schmidt is recorded in the parish register of Riesigk: (1) Dorothea Maria, born 9 October 1765 in Gohrau, baptized in Riesigk, died 10 October 1765.
Christian Bock, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea 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.
Christi. Bock and his wife Dorothea are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28.
The descendants of Christian Bock are recorded on the 1834 census of Boisroux in Households No. 10, 34, 42, & 50.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Bock came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Christian Bock came from the German village of Gohren in the region of Dessau.
- 1834 Boisroux Census (Households No. 10, 34, 42, 50).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30, 31, 224.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 198.
- 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): Bx05, Bx23.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1056.
- Parish register of Rehsen.
- Parish register of Riesigk.
- Parish register of Seegrehna.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 145.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1339.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0675-0676.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 83.
Brent Mai
David F. Schmidt
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