There are two Görlitz families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Die Frau Dietrika under the command of Skipper Joachim Friedrich Luhn and settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana.
Johann Heinrich Görlitz married in Wallernhausen on 17 January 1740 to Maria Barbara Conradi, daughter of Hans Georg Conradi.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Heinrich Görlitz & Maria Barbara Conradi are recorded in the parish register of Wallernhausen: (1) Johann Conrad, baptized 21 June 1744; and (2) Maria Elisabetha, born 31 January 1746, baptized 1 January 1747.
Conrad Görlitz from Wallernhausen & Catharina Schäffer from Ober Laÿs were married on 27 June 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann Heinrich Görlitz (age 57), a farmer, and his wife Maria Barbara settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodyana Polyana on 16 September 1767. Johann Heinrich is recorded there as a widower on the 1767 census living in Household No. 51 along with his son-in-law Johann Heinrich Beutel.
Son Johann Konrad Görlitz (age 24) , a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann Heinrich (age 9-months) also settled in Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 50.
Konrad Görlitz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp68.
Johannes Görlitz, believed to be a son of Konrad Görlitz, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp74.
Heinrich Görlitz, son of Johannes Görlitz, relocated from Yagodnaya Polyana to the colony of Zürich before 1834 and is recorded on the 1834 census of Zürich in Household No. 123.
Adam Görlitz from Yagodnaya Polyana and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both Johann Heinrich Görlitz and Johann Konrad Görlitz came from the German district of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that they came from the area of Nidda.
- 1834 Zürich Census (Household No. 123).
- 1857 Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana Census.
- Kromm, Georg: research reprinted in Flegel, Arthur & Cleo. "Research in Hessen." AHSGR Work Paper XIII (December 1973): 33.
- 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): Yp68, Yp74, Yp94.
- 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): #717.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Wallernhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 186.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6111.
- Wirth, Arnold & Kötting, Rainer. Evang. Gemeinde Wallernhausen (Wetterau): Heiraten 1645-1932 (Darmstadt: Hessische familiengeschichtliche Vereinigung, 1992), #365. [Online]
Brent Mai
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