Johann Georg Koch, a brewer (Bierbrauer), his wife Katharina, and [step-]son Johann Heinrich [surname not recorded] (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johann Georg Koch, his wife Katharina, and stepson Johann Heinrich Nissen [sic] (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 37. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.
Widower Johann Georg Kuch [sic] and his stepson Johann Heinrich Nies [sic] are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr115.
The death of Johann Georg Kuch [sic] in 1799 is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 115.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Koch came from the German village of Perling... [?] in the Schwaben (Swabia) region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Koch family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Warenburg Census (Household No. 115).
- 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): 132.
- 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): Wr115.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 327.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #780.
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