Koch (Jost)
Heinrich Koch & Maria Sabina Prösin [Bröse] were married on 11 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Heinrich Koch, a stonemason, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Gottlieb [Bröse], age 7; Gottfried [Bröse?], age 4½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Der Engel Rafael under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
Heinrich Koch, a farmer, and his wife Maria Sabina settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29 along with stepson Gottlieb Bröse [erroneously recorded as Ries] (age 8).
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Koch came from the German region of Berlin.
- 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): #970.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 201.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3453.
Brent Mai