The parish register of Saint Martin Catholic Church in Worms records that Johannes Kloster married on 21 January 1743 to Maria Philippina Glinz.
The birth of a son born to Johannes Kloster & Philippina Glinz of Bodenheim is recorded: Johannes, born 22 September 1743.
Philippina Kloster née Glinz died 3 December 1746 at the age of 36.
Johannes Kloster remarried on 16 January 1748 [?] to Barbara Kleim.
The births of two children to Johannes Kloster & Barbara Kleim are recorded: (1) David, born 9 June 1749; and (2) Maria Katharina, born 23 October 1751.
Johannes Kloster married on 22 February 1740 to Martha Elisabaeth Hahn, daughter of Johannes Jakob Hahn & Christina Klick. She had been baptized 22 February 1740 in Bodenheim. [See Hahn Family.]
Widow Barbara Kloster and her children (David, age 20; Katharina, age 17) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg along with son Johann and his wife Elisabeth. They all arrived in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767.
Widow Barbara Kloster and her children (David, age 20; Katharina, age 17¼) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36 where Barbara has remarried to Leonhard Wahr. [See Wahr Family.]
Johannes Kloster and his wife are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.
Following the destruction of Keller, the Kloster families relocated to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kloster came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johannes Kloster came from the German village of Bodenheim in the Kurmainz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 147.
- 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): Nk39, Nk46.
- Parish register of Bodenheim.
- Parish register of Saint Martin Catholic Church in Worms.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 348, 349.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #899, #900.
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