Johann Christoph Koch, his wife Anna, and children (Elisabeth, age 15½; Johann, age 5½; Johann, age 4; Peter, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johann Christian [sic] Koch, his wife Anna, and children (Elisabeth, 15½; Johann Wilhelm, age 5¼; Johann Konrad, age 4; Peter, age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov along with a note that all of them except for father and daughter Elisabeth died en route.
It is not known in which colony this Koch family settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger does not record from where this Koch family came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Koch family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 842.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6807.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4189-4194.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Christoph Koch and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.