Johann Lohrens Kiltz & Maria Elisabeth Wegner were married on 7 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Lorenz Kültz, a farmer, his wife Maria, and son Johann [Michae] (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
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).
- 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.
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