Michael Gos, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Katharina Elisabeth, and daughters (Anna Margaretha, age 10; Katharina Elisabeth, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. Johann Michael Gos and his children, along with a new wife, are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 71.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Michael Gos came from the region of Stuttgart.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gos family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 332.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1984.
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