Johann Heinrich Idt was born about 1729 in Ruppertsburg, southwest of Laubach. He and his wife Anna had at least six children: (1) Johann Konrad, born 1 January 1753; (2) Anna Elisabeth, born about 1753; (3) Anna Elisabeth, born about 1755; (4) Anna Barbara, born about 1758; (5) Johannes, born about 1762; and (6) Anna Margaretha, born about 1766.
Johann Heinrich Idt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 14; Elisabeth, age 12; Anna, age 9; Barbara, age 8; Johannes, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship under the command of skipper John Scott.
Johann Heinrich Idt, a farmer, his wife Susanna Elisabeth, and children (Johann Konrad, age 16; Anna Elisabeth, age 14; Anna Elisabeth [again], age 12; Anna Barbara, age 9; Johannes, age 5; Anna Margaretha, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 71. They had arrived in Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767.
On the 1798 census of Krasnoyar, son Konrad is recorded in Household No. Ks071, son Johannes at Ks109 (but living in Katharinenstadt). Daughter Maria Elisabeth is recorded in Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka108, and daughter Margaretha is recorded in Mariental at Household No. Mt76.
The death of Johannes Idt in 1807 is recorded on the 1811 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 105 along with a note that his surviving son Georg relocated to the colony of Enders [year not recorded]
Georg Idt, son of Johannes Idt, is recorded on the 1811 census of Enders in Household No. 3.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Idt came from the German village of Landsberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Laubach.
- 1811 Enders Census (Household No. 3)
- 1811 Krasnoyar Census (Household No. 105).
- Die Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen vom Vogelsberg zur Wolga (Alsfeld, Wiesbaden: Die Albert-Schweitzer-Schule, 1990).
- 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): Ks071, Ks109.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 434.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3755.
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