Knaub (Schäfer)
Johann Knaub, a farmer, and his wife Sara immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), arriving in the city of Schleswig on 20 May 1761.
They deserted the Danish colonies on 20 March 1766 and joined the migration to Russia.
Johann[es] Knaub, a farmer, his wife Sarah, and son Johann [age 4] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 3 June 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Johannes Knaub and son Johann Heinrich (age 6) settled in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 25 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46 along with Johann's new wife Anna Elisabeth and her children (Johann Peter Ertel, age 5; Philippina Margaretha Ertel, age ½).
In 1788, Heinrich Knaup moved from Schäfer to Mariental.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Knaub came from the German region of Darmstadt. The Eichhorns record that Johann Knaub came from the German Landgrafschaft of Hessen-Darmstadt.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-837.
- 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): Mt45, Sf10, Sf17, Mv2519.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 101.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #673.
Brent Mai