Henrich Klock, a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]children (Johann [Luft], age 18; Anna [Luft], age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Johann Henrich Kniess, his wife Helena, and [step-]children (Johannes [Luft], age 18; Anna Maria [Luft], age 16) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Heinrich Kless [sic], a farmer, his [new] wife Gertrude [widow Koch], her son Johannes Koch (age 14), and his stepchildren [by his first wife] (Johannes Luft, age 20; Anna Maria Luft, age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 17. They had arrived in Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767. [See Luft & Koch Families.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Henrich Klock came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Kless [sic] came from the German village of Ulfa in the Büdingen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Klock family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 814.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 177.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6517.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8279-8282.
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