The parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Heimersheim records the baptisms of the following children born to Johannes & Anna Maria Jopp: (1) Maria Katharina, born 17 May 1746; (2) Elisabetha, born 18 February 1748; (3) Werner, born 28 July 1749; (4) Apollonia, born 18 September 1752; (5) Lorenz, born 15 March 1754; (6) Johannes, born 20 August 1757; and (7) Balthasar, born 10 April 1762, died 3 April 1763.
The parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Heimersheim records the baptisms of the following children born to Johannes & Katharina Jopp: (1) Maria Elisabetha, born 4 March 1764.
Johann[es] Job [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Anna Maria, age 18; Lorenz, age 13; Maria Elisabeth, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Johannes Job [sic], his unnamed wife, and unnamed three children are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Keller on 11 August 1767. Johannes survived and remarried to Elisabeth, the widow of Franz Spithoff, and is recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 61 along with her son Peter (age 11).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Jopp came from the German region of Pfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Jopp family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 275.
- Parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Heimersheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 354.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1994.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1828.
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