Knoll (Katharinenstadt)

An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:

Jeremias Knoll, a butcher (Fleischhauer), from the city of Oranienbaum, originating in Saxony. He owned a brewing house with 7½ Morgen plowed land with rental and a small house with 1½ Morgen plowed land, but he had debts in the amount of 902 Thlr. 16 Gr. From the sale of his property, 638 Thlr. 1 Gr. 6 H. were paid. He went with five other persons to Russia.

The Knoll family did not go directly to Roßlau, but by a longer and safer route that took them to Coswig.

Jeremias Knoll, his wife Sophia, and children (David, age 26; Sophia, age 18; Jeremias, age 10; Johann, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair along with Gottfried Knoll, a butcher, and his wife Henrietta.

Jeremias Knoll [a], his wife Dorothea [sic], children (Jeremias, age 10; Carl Leopolt, age 7), [b] Gottfried Knoll, [c] Friedrich David Knoll, and Henrietta Knoll are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767, along with a note that Gottfried died en route.

[a] Jeremias Knoll, his wife Anna Dorothea Koch [from Oranienbaum], and children (Johann Friedrich, age 27; Sophia Henrietta, age 18; Jeremias, age 10; Karl Leopold, age 9] are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 20. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 7 June 1767.

Jeremias Knoll, his wife Dorothea née Koch, and sons (Jeremias, age 16; Karl, age 15) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 45.

Karl Knoll is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 20 along with his parents and siblings.

The widow and children of Karl Knoll are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka049.

[b] In Coswig, son Gottfried Knoll married on 10 April 1766 to Henriette Lindenhahn who also came from Oranienbaum. The entry in the marriage register reads:

den 10. April 1766 - Ist Gottfried Knoll, Fleischhauer und Kaiserlicher Russischer Kolonist, Meisters Jeremias Knolls Bürgers und Fleischhauers in Oranienbaum ehelicher dritter Sohn und Jungfrau Henriette Lindenhanin, Meisters Zacharias Lindenhans, Bürgers und Leinwebers in Oranienbaum eheliche einige Tochter in hiesiger Kirche eingesegnet und getraut worden.

[On 10 April 1766 Gottfried Knoll, butcher and Imperial Russian colonist and the legitimate third son of Jeremias Knoll (citizen and butcher in Oranienbaum), and virgin Henriette Lindenhan, daughter of Zacharias Lindenhan (citizen and linen weaver), married in Oranienbaum - marriage consecrated in the local church.]

There is a Gottfried Knoll (age 1) recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 58 as the stepson of David Alberg [See Alberg family] with whom the Knoll family had been traveling from St. Petersburg to Saratov. This Gottfried Knoll is believed to be the son of the above referenced Gottfried Knoll.

[c] Johann Friedrich [David] Knoll is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in household No. 20 along with his parents and siblings. 

[Johann Friedrich] David Knoll, his wife Christina Maria née Erfurt, and daughter Johanna Sophia (age 3) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 25 along with a note that David Knoll died 4 March 1778. Also recorded on the Land Register in Household No. 25 is Johannes Roth (who had married the widow Christina Maria Knoll née Erfurt) and their daughter Christina Katharina who had been born 15 June 1779.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jeremias Knoll was a butcher from the German region of Dessau while the 1767 census records that he was a miller (Müller) from the German village of Keinberg in Sachsen (Saxony). The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Knoll came from the German region of Dessau. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that David Knoll came from the German village of Oranienbaum in the region of Anhalt-Dessau and that his wife came from Löthen in the region of Anhalt.