Thomas Koch, a glazier (Glaser), his wife Anna Belenski, and children (Heinrich, age 4; Angela, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 59. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records in Household No. 84:
Thomas Koch (age 38), a painter (Maler)
His wife: Anna Bilenski (age 39)
Sons: Heinrich (age 1); Christian (age ½)
Daughters: Angela (age 9); Wilhelmina Roberta Carolina (age 7); Maria Sophia (born 29 May 1777)
The 1767 census records that Thomas Koch came from the Dutch village of Arnheim in Holland. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Thomas Koch was born in the village of Arnheim in the Gelderland region of Holland and that Anna Bilenski was born in the village of Hohten [?] in Denmark.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register (Household No. 84).
- 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): Ka011, Ka081, Ka109.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 289.
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