Joseph Dosak, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Anna Maria Degass, her unnamed husband, and their son, Johannes, settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767. The unnamed husband died on 14 November 1767. The widowed Anna Maria and her son are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 67.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Dosack came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that the Degass family came from the German village of Bissersheim in Kurmainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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