Pankratius Kurtz [sic], his wife Dorothea, and daughters (Maria, age 9; Katharina, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Pankratius Kuntz [sic], his wife Dorothea, and daughter Maria (age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the father died in route.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
Andreas Schuck, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his [new] wife Dorothea, and [step-]daughter Helena [surname not recorded] (age 10) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 14. It's possible that this Dorothea is the widow of Pankratius Kuntz/Kurtz with whom they arrived in Saratov and with whom they traveled from St. Petersburg to Saratov. [See Schuck Family.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Pankratius Kuntz/Kurtz came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 845.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 197.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6840, #6863.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4742-4744, #4775-4779.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Pankratius Kurtz and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.