There are three Jost families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax and settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 7 June 1767. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) The following marriage is recorded in the parish register of the church in Coswig:
"den 14. März 1766 ist Gottfried Jost, russischer Kaiserlicher in Katharinen Lehn Koloniste, Christoph Jostes Einwohner in Jestnitz eheleiblicher ältester Sohn und seine verlobte Braut Jungfrau Maria Louisa Sentzin, Christian Sentzes Einwohners in Böthen bei Dessau eheliche älteste Tochter in hiesiger Stifts Kirche eingesegnet und getraut worden."
[Translation: "On 14 March 1766 the marriage of Gottfried Jost, Imperial Russian colonist and oldest son of Christoph Jost, a resident of Jestnitz, and his engaged virgin bride Maria Louisa Sentz, eldest daughter of Christian Sentz, a resident of Böthen bei Dessau, was consecrated in the local parish church."]
There are two entries elsewhere in the registers of Dessau-Anhalt that record the bride, Louise Sentz. One records that she is from Pötnitz; the other that she is from Dellnau [see photos].
Gottfr. Joost [sic], his wife Dorothea [sic], and Christop. Andreas (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottfried Jost, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 47.
(2) The marriage of Lebrecht Jost & Dorothea Sophia Härtel is recorded on 10 April 1766 in the parish register in Roßlau.
Leberecht Joost [sic] and his wife Dorothea are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Lebrecht Jost, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 48.
(3) Christoph Joost [sic], his wife Louisa, and son Leopold (age 18) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Maria Louisa Jost, widow of Christoph Jost, and her son Leopold (age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 49.
The 1767 census records that these three families came from the German village of Jeßnitz in the region of Dessau.
- 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): Pl11, Pl19, Pl23.
- 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): #939.
- Parish register of Coswig.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 342, 343.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1288, #1289, #1290.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0583-0590.
Brent Mai
Karl Becker
Entry from the parish register of the church in Coswig recording the marriage on 14 March 1766 of Gottfried Jost & Maria Louisa Sentz.
Source: Karl Becker.
Entry from a document in Dessau-Anhalt: "aus Pötnitz: Louise Sentz(en), eine Tagelöhners Tochter" [translation: "from Pötnitz: Louise Sentz, a day laborer's daughter"].
Source: Karl Becker.
Entry from a document in Dessau-Anhalt: "aus Dellnau: Louise Senss(in), 18 Jahre alt, eines armen Tagelöhners Tochter" [translation: "from Dellnau: Louise Senss(in), 18 years old, daughter of a poor day labourer"].
Source: Karl Becker.
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