Katzenbach*
Johann Katzenbach & Juliana Christiana Dorn were married 23 June 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann Katzenbach, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Christian (age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
Johannes Katzenbach, his wife Anna Catrina [sic], and son Johann Fridrich [sic] (age 15½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna Catrina died in route.
Johannes Katzenbach remarried to widow Margaretha Schmidt with whom he had travelled from Oranienbaum to Saratov. They are recorded on the appendex to the Paulskaya 1767 census in Household No. 64 along with a note that they relocated to the Volga German colony of Basel in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johann Katzenbach came from the German village of Rauschenberg in Hessen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): #109.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 364.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3943.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6036-6038.
Brent Mai