Johann Nicolaus Hock, son of Johannes Hock, was born 28 October 1732 in Rendel.
He married on 6 December 1754 in Herrnhaag to Anna Katharina Euler.
The births of the following children born to Johann Nicolaus & Anna Katharina Euler are recorded in the parish register of Herrnhaag: (1) Anna Sibina, born 4 December 1754; (2) Andreas, born 27 September 1761; and (3) Johann Georg, born 24 April 1764.
Nikolaus Hahn [sic], a hosier (Strumpfwirker), his wife Katharina, and children (Sabina, age 12; Andreas, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
Nikolaus Hock, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Katharina, and children (Anna Sabina, age 12; Andreas, age 7; Johann Georg, age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 67.
Nikolaus Hock and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 142.
In 1788, Andreas, Johann Georg, and Maria Margaretha Hoch moved from Grimm to Bauer.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Nikolaus Hock came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 142).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 619.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Br32, Br39, Gm156, Mv0759.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 1999): 82.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4962
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