Joseph Köhler, a hunter (Jäger), his wife Maria, and children (Franz, age 22; Johann [Karl August], age 19; Johann [Ludwig], age 17; Anna, age 10) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 35 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.
Karl August Köhler (age 21), a farmer, his wife Christina née Wogau (age 27), and his siblings (Franz, age 27; Johann Ludwig, age 19; Sophia, age 11] are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 8 along with a note that brother Franz deserted the colony and that Karl August & Christina had a daughter (Anna Dorothea, born 11 November 1777).
Karl Friedrich [sic] Köhler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka085.
Johann Ludwig Köhler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka022.
Anna Sophia Katharina Weiss née Köhler and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka028.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Köhler came from the German region of Böhmen (Bohemia). The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Karl August Köhler came from Bei Brutenritz-Kana [?] and that his wife Christina née Wogau came from Bohemia.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Households No. 8, 11).
- 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): Ka022, Ka028, Ka085.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 330.
Brent Mai