Friedrich Koch and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 156.
By 1798, Friedrich's son Johannes Koch is recorded living in the colony of Müller (Ml26) and son Georg Koch is recorded living in the colony of Kolb (Ko28).
Georg Koch and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kolb in Household No. 39.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Koch was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a soldier. Both documents record that Friedrich Koch came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 1834 Kolb Census (Household No. 39).
- 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): Ko28, Ml26, Nr136.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 271.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5144.
Brent Mai