Knack

Johann Heinrich Knack, son of Wolff Heinrich & Anna Dorothea Knack from Calbach, was baptized in Büdingen on 2 June 1746.  Maria Magdalena Seitz, daughter of Ernst Peter Seitz, was born in Langen-Bergheim on 31 December 1742 and baptized in Eckartshausen on 4 January 1743.

Johann Heinrich Knack & Maria Magdalena Seitz were married in Büdingen on 12 February 1767. The baptismal register of Büdingen records that they had two children, both born in Calbach: (1) Johann Friedrich, born 27 March 1768, baptized 31 March 1768; and (2) Johannes, born 3 July 1770, baptized 8 July 1770.

Johann Heinrich Knack, his wife Magdalena Seitz, and his sons (Johann Friedrich, age 4¼; Johann, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.

The list of those being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov records that Magdalena gave birth to a daughter on 19 September 1772 and that son Johannes was buried on 14 August 1772.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.

They are recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 13).

Widow Magdalena Knack and her children are recorded on the 1798 census of Pobochnaya in Household No. Pb05.