The parish register of Kirschnaumen records the baptisms of the following children born to Johann Adam Drisch & Susanna Mertz of Evendorff: (1 & 2) twins Peter & Magdalena, born 8 January 1750; (3) Nicolaus, born 9 March 1752; and (4) Catharina, born 11 January 1756.
Johann Adam Deisch [sic], a farmer, his wife Susanna, and children (Nikolaus, age 15; Katharina, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 17. They had arrived in Kamenka on 6 July 1765.
Nikolaus Driesch (age 23) and his wife Katharina (age 20) are recorded on the 1775 census of Kamenka in Household No. 13 along with his mother Susanna (age 63).
Katharina Bender née Driesch and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km004.
The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Deisch [sic] came from the German village of Sierck[-les-Bains] in France.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Driesch family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Kamenka Census (Household No. 13).
- 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): Km004.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 220.
Brent Mai
Cilian (Wolgadeutsche.net Forum)