Johann Heinrich Götz, son of Johann Peter Götz & Anna Christina Pitz, was born 31 August 1736 in Kölschhausen. He married there on 27 February 1759 to Anna Elisabeth Debus, daughter of Johann Friedrich Debus & Maria Wilhelmina "Wilhelmina" Moritz. She was also born in Kölschhausen on 24 January 1738.
In Kölschhausen, Johann Heinrich & Anna Elisabeth had at least three children: (1) Maria Elisabeth - born 2 January 1760; (2) Justina - born 13 October 1761; and (3) Johann Konrad - born 18 November 1763.
Heinrich Götz, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 5; Katharina, age 4; Konrad, age 2½; Anna, age 2-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
The three younger children must have died on the trip to the Volga region, because only the parents and Maria (age 8) are recorded in Household No. 2 of the 1767 Census of Kukkus. They had arrived in Kukkus on 26 June 1767.
Christian Debus, the brother of Anna Elisabeth, and his family were traveling with them and are recorded in Household No. 3 on the 1767 census of Kukkus.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Götz came from the German region of Braunfels.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 454.
- Kukkus Website (www.kukkus.com) - Origins
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- Parish register of Kölschhausen.
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