Jacob Holtzwarth, son of Nikolaus Holtzwarth, married in Kleingartach on 18 November 1738 to Catharina Barbara Marleth, daughter of Stephan & Catharina Barbara Marleth. She had been born there on 6 April 1715. Their sons were born in Kleingartach: (1) Philipp Michael, born 10 June 1744; (2) Stephan, birth date unknown; and (3) Johann Martin, born 2 March 1749.
Jacob Holtzwarth died. His widow, Catharina Barbara Holtzwarth née Mareth, and sons immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), departing from Altona, Duchy of Holstein, on 10 May 1762. They arrived in the city of Flensburg, Duchy of Schleswig, on 15 May 1762.
(1) Stephan Holtzwarth setted in the Danish colony of Wihelminenfeld on 24 September 1763. He departed on 17 January 1765, but did not go to the Volga German colonies. He appears in the church register of the German colony of Neu-Saratovka, near St. Petersburg.
(2) Michael Holtzwarth with his mother and her new husband [below] settled first in the farmstead of Adelbye in the colony of Friedrichshöfe on 24 September 1763, then moved on 24 June 1764 to the farmstead of Eggebeck in the colony of Sophienthal.
The marriage of Michael Holtzwarth & the widow Sophia Diener, daughter of Martin Krause [sic], is recorded in the parish register of Burkal Sogn on 27 December 1762.
The baptisms of two children born to Peter [sic] Michael Holtzwarth & Sophia Kraus are recorded in the parish register of Burkal Sogn: (1) Johann Stephan Friedrich, baptized 31 January 1763; and (2) Maria Catharina, baptized 16 May 1764.
They deserted Sophiental on 24 May 1765 and joined the migration to Russia.
(3) Martin Holtzwarth settled with his mother and brother Michael.
Widow Holtzwarth remarried on 27 December 1763 to Andreas Körber. They settled on the farmstead of Jordelundt in the colony of Friedrichshöfe on 24 June 1764. They are recorded as having deserted the Danish colonies on 22 March 1765 and left for Hamburg enroute to Russia.
The combined Körber/Holtzwarth family immigrated to Russia.
The Körber/Holtzwarth family arrived in Reinwald on 14 June 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 3 along with the younger Holtzwarth son, Martin. Michael Holtzwarth and his family also settled in Reinwald and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 25.
Michael Holtzwarth and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw21. Martin Holtzwarth and his family are recorded there in Household No. Rw34.
The death of Martin Holzwarth in 1803 is recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 34.
Jakob Holzwarth, son of Martin Holzwarth, is recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 34 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Orlovskaya in 1803.
Jakob Holzwarth, son of Martin Holzwarth, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 118.
- 1811 Reinwald Census (Household No. 34).
- 1834 Orlovskaya Census (Household No. 118).
- Clausen, Otto. Chronik der Heide- und Moorkolonisation im Herzogtum Schleswig, 1760-1765 (Husum: Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1981): 865-867.
- Eichhorn, Alexander; Eichhorn Jacob & Mary. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen: Steinmeier, 2012): B-677, B-678, B-679, B-680, B-852.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Rw21, Rw34.
- Parish register of Burkal Sogn, Amt Tondern.
- Parish register for Kleingartach (LDS Film No. 1184796).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 30 & 36.
Corina Hirt
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner