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Kuhn (Schönchen)

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Kuhn (Schönchen)
Кунъ (Schönchen)
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Johann Heinrich Kuhn married 14 April 1757 in Momberg to the widow Anna Elisabeth Ebel. She had two children from her previous marriage (Johannes & Elisabeth).

The births of the following children to Johann Heinrich & Anna Elisabeth Kuhn are recorded in the parish register of Momberg: (1) Johannes, born 6 February 1758; (2) Maria Katharina, born 10 September 1761; and (3) Johann Heinrich, born 14 October 1763.

Johann Heinrich Kuhn, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna, his [step-]children (Elisabeth [Ebel], age 16; Johann [Ebel], age [1]9), and sons (Johann, age 8; Heinrich, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Schönchen on 17 August 1767.  Johann Heinrich Kuhn, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna, sons (Johannes, age 10; Johann Heinrich, age 4), and stepchildren (Johannes Ebel, age 19; Elisabeth Ebel, age 17) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.

The 1798 census records that Heinrich Kuhn from Schönchen is living in Wittmann (Wm11).

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Kuhn came from the German village of Momberg.

Sources

- Faber, Hartwig. Ortsfamilienbuch Neustadt (Hessen) [Online].
- 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): Wm11.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 108.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6976.

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