Holz (Urbach)
Spelling Variations:
Holz (Urbach)
Гольцъ (Urbach)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Wilhelm Holz, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Der Engel Rafael under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Holz came from the German village of Halle in the Brandenburg district.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 280.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3472.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai