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.
- 1773 Pobochnaya Census (No. 13).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojekts von Katharina II. 1763-1775 (Moscow: Andreas Idt, Georg Rauschenbach, 2021): 392, 407.
- 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): Pb02, Pb05.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Eckartshausen.
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