Horst (Beideck)
Christian Horst & Friederica Maus were married on 13 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Christian Horst, a farmer, and his wife Klara [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the galliot Die Fortuna under the command of Skipper Peter Stahl.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Beideck. Christian Horst and his wife Anna Friedrika are recorded there on the 1775 census in Household No. 50.
The widow and children of Christian Horst are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd79.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Horst came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 50).
- 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): Bd79.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #422.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2311.
Brent Mai