Johann Christian Debus, son of Johann Friedrich Debus & Maria Wilhelmina "Wilhelmina" Moritz, was born in Kölschhausen on 17 September 1741. He married there on 8 February 1763 to Anna Tröster, daughter of Johann Peter Tröster & Anna Barbara Freund. She was born on 7 December 1739 in nearby Niederlemp.
In Niederlemp, they had two children: Johann Peter (born 14 January 1762, before they were married) & Johannes (born 20 January 1764).
Christian Debus, a hosier, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, 5¼; Christoph, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
They had arrived in Kukkus on 26 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 3.
They were traveling with Christian's sister Anna Elisabeth Debus and her husband Johann Heinrich Götz who are recorded in Household No. 2. [See Götz Family.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Debus came from the German region of Braunfels.
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