Kuhn (Balzer)*
Catharina Kuhn, daughter of Johann Jost Kuhn & Elisabeth Gerd, was baptized in Hüttengesäß on 14 August 1711.
She married 12 June 1727 in Hüttengesäß to Johann Caspar Zieg. [See Zieg Family.]
Katharina Zieg née Kuhn arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 along with her son Philipp.
Katharina Zieg née Kuhn settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kuhn family among the Volga German colonies.
- Hüttengesäß Parish Records.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 73.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3019.
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