Jean / Schank (Köhler)
Kilian Jean, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and sons (Franz, age 4; Jakob, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 72.
Widow Elisabeth Jean [mis-transcribed as Schulian in some publications of the 1798 census], wife of the deceased Johann Jean, is recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl78.
Katharina Rosenbach née Jean [mis-transcribed as Schulian in some publications of the 1798 census], presumed daughter of Kilian Jean, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl26.
By the time that the 1834 census of Köhler was taken, this surname had morphed into Schank.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kilian Johannes came from the German region of Durlach while the 1767 census records that Kilian Jean (Cyrillic = Жан) came from the French village of Rekgoberteng [?].
- 1834 Köhler Census (Households No. 130, 176).
- 1850 Köhler Census (Households No. 182, 246, 247).
- 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): Kl26, Kl78.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 377.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4125.
Brent Mai