Johann Hermann Knaus, son of the deceased Johann Heinrich Knaus of Düdelsheim, married in Hochst near Büdingen on 7 February 1737 to Anna Margaretha Hoffmann, daughter of the deceased Johann Heinrich Hoffmann & Catharina Schäffer. Anna Margaretha Hoffmann had been baptized in Hochst on 3 June 1712.
The baptisms of two children born to Johann Hermann Knaus & Anna Margaretha Hoffmann are recorded on the parish registers of Düdelsheim & Diebach: (1) Anna Catharina, baptized 9 February 1738 in Düdelsheim; and (2) Johann Adam, baptized 22 October 1747 in Diebach.
Daughter Anna Catharina married in Büdingen on 8 April 1766 to Martin Müller.
Herrmann Knaus, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 June 1766 aboard a boat named Северный Орел (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Peter Malenkov along with daughter Katharina & her husband Martin Müller. [See Müller Family.]
Adam Knaus, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and widowed mother Anna Margaretha (age 55) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 37. They had arrived in Moor on 18 June 1767.
The Müller family, along with newborn son Adam (age ¾), are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 38.
The Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Adam Knaus came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Bonner, Wayne H. Volga German Settlers Identified in Isenburg and Other German Church Records Part I (Gardena, CA: Wayne Bonner, 2007): 49-50.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 185.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Mo20.
- 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): 63.
- Parish register of Diebach (LDS Film No. 1201842).
- Parish register of Hochst (LDS Film No. 1201836).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 165.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 99.
Wayne Bonner
Brent Mai