Martin Kurtz, son of Christian & Anna Margaretha Kurtz, was baptized in Grötzingen on 6 October 1704. Martin’s first wife, Ursula Schwartz, died in 1744. He remarried on 11 April 1745 in Grotzingen to Anna Catharina Lautenschlager, daughter of Simon Lautenschlager. She had been baptized 31 October 1718 in Grötzingen.
The baptism of several children born to Martin Kurtz and Anna Catharina Lautenschlager are recorded in the parish register of Grötzingen: (1) Barbara, baptized 15 Feb 1746, died in 1747; (2) Christian, baptized 18 February 1747; (3) Maria Barbara, baptized 5 January 1750; (4) Anna Maria, baptized 7 September 1753; (5) Magdalena, baptized 5 April 1756, died 23 January 1757; (6) Johann Ludwig, baptized 16 September 1759; and (7) Johann Jacob, baptized 21 November 1760.
Martin Kurtz, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and their children (Christian, age 14; Maria Barbara, age 11; Anna Maria, age 8, Johann Ludwig, age 3; Johann Jakob, age 1) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in the city of Schleswig on 4 July 1761.
The parish register of Bünsdorf [Denmark] records on 30 April 1762 the death of Barbara Kürtz, daughter of Martin & Catharina Kürtz.
Martin Kurtz died 10 May 1762 in Borgstedt.
While in Denmark, son Christian married on 28 February 1764 in the parish of Hohn to Maria Eva Ulrich, daughter of Hans Michel & Anna Maria Ulrich.
They were released from the Danish colonies on 2 July 1764 and joined the migration to Russia. Mother Katharina and son Christian are recorded on the 1775 census of Schilling in Household No. 49.
Christian Kurtz is recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg090.
Anna Maria Kurtz from Schilling is recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv53 as the wife of Adolf Romig from Grimm.
Barbara Kurtz is recorded on the 1798 census of Balzer in Household No. Bz003 as the wife of Konrad Schneider.
The Eichhorns record that Martin Kurtz came from the German region of Baden-Durlach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kurtz family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 49).
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-932.
- 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): Bz003, Sg090, Sv53.
- Parish register of Borstedt (Denmark).
- Parish register of Bünsdorf (Denmark).
- Parish register of Grötzingen.
- Parish register of Hohn (Denmark).
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