Johann Koch, a weaver, his wife Maria, and son Johann (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Johann Koch, his [new] wife Maria Magdalena, and daughter Maria Dorothea (age 4-weeks) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 9.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Koch came from the German region of Stadt [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Koch family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Beideck Census (Household No. 9).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 76.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #236.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Koch and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.