Johann[es] Koch, his wife Anna, and his brothers [not sons] (Johann [Ludwig], age 16¼; Martin, age 8) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
In 1788, Johann Martin Koch moved from Warenburg to Jost.
Ludwig Koch is recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr089 along with a note that he is working in Moor.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] Koch was a farmer from the German region of Oldenburg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Koch was a gardner (Gärtner) from the German village of Großenkneten.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 91.
- 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): Jo23, Wr089, Mv2982.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 324.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #392.
Brent Mai