Koch (Yagodnaya Polyana-2)*
Johannes Koch married in Eichelsdorf on 18 March 1746 to Anna Gertrude Wild, daughter of Johann Heinrich Wild from Hatzfeld.
The baptisms of the following children born in Eichelsdorf to Johannes Koch and Anna Gertrude Wild are recorded in the parish register of Eichelsdorf: (1) Anna Elisabetha, born 27 July 1746, baptized 28 Jul 1746; (2) Anna Margaretha, born 17 February 1749, baptized 19 February 1749; (3) Anna Catharina, born 19 May 1751, baptized 20 May 1751; and (4) Johannes, born 21 December 1755, baptized 23 December 1755.
The Büdingen marriages report that Johannes Koch [a different Koch family] from Fauerbach and Elisabetha Koch [born 1746 above] from Eichelsdorf married on 3 July 1766.
Johann Koch, a farmer, his wife Gertrude, and children (Anna, age 20; Katharina, age 16; Johann[es], age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
Johannes (senior) Koch, his wife Anna Gertruth, and children (Anna Margretha, age 19; Anna Cathrina, age 17; Johannes, age 13) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Johannes (senior) died en route.
Widow Gertrude remarried to Johann Heinrih Kniess. They and surviving son Johannes Koch (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 17.
Elisabeth Koch [who married in Büdingen] and Johannes Koch are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 18.
Johann Koch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp24.
The death of Johannes Koch in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 155.
Following the death in 1855 of Adam Koch, son of Johannes Koch, there were no further known surviving male lines of this Koch family among the Volga German colonies.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that this Koch family came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1834 Yagodnaya Polyana Census (Household No. 155).
- 1850 Yagodnaya Polyana Census (Household No. 221).
- 1857 Yagodnaya Polyana Census (Household No. 230).
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Andreas Idt, Georg Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- 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): Yp24.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #728.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Eichelsdorf.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 177.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6486, #6545.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8448-8452, 8454-8455.
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