There are two Koch families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg. They both settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767.
(1) Peter Koch, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna, age 12; Elisabeth, age 8; Anna, age 3½; Johann, age ½) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Widower Peter Koch and his children are recorded on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 13.
(2) Melchior Koch, a single farmer, arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johann Melchior Koch and his [new] wife Johannette are recorded on the 1767 census in Huck in Household No. 14.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census of Huck record that these Koch families came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 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): Hk27, Hk29, Hk30, Hk70.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 143.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3113, #3115.
Brent Mai
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