Joseph Götz, a hunter (Jäger), and his wife Maria Eva arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Joseph Gotze [sic] and his wife Eva Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Götz, a hunter (Jäger), and his unnamed wife settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 19 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 108 along with a note that she died 30 September 1767.
In 1780, widow Joseph Götz left Brabander.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Götz came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Joseph Götz came from the German village of Vilseck in the Bamberg region.
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Brent Mai