Johann Lohrens Kiltz & Maria Elisabeth Wegner were married on 7 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Lorenz Kültz, a farmer, his wife Maria, and son Johann [Michael] (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Lorentz [sic] Kültz, his wife Mar. Elisabeth, and son Johann Michael (age 8) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5 along with new-born son Christoph (3-months-old).
In 1778, widow Maria Kiltz left Boisroux and married Christian Hanke in Orlovskaya. Her son moved with her.
Christian Hanke and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or37. In this household is a "son" named Immanuel (age 31) who is actually Immanuel Kültz, Christian Hanke's stepson.
The death of Immanuel Kültz in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 49, where he is identified as the step-brother of Heinrich Hanke.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Lorenz Kültz came from the German region of Zerbst.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kültz family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Orlovskaya Census (Household No. 49).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 204.
- 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): Or37, Mv0296.
- 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): #909.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 140.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1403.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0761-0763.
Brent Mai