Peter Kuckshaus, son of Wilhelm Kuckshaus & Sybilla Haugh, married on 16 May 1726 in the Evangelical [Lutheran] Church in Erkrath to Sybilla von der Hoven, daughter of Johann von der Hoven & Margaretha von Burberg.
The births of the following children born to Peter Kuckshaus & Sybilla von der Hoven [sometimes Huven/Hufen] are recorded in the parish register of Mettmann: (1) Johann Gerhard, baptized 4 November 1733; (2) Johann Wilhelm, baptized 12 April 1736; (3) Anna Catharina, baptized 1 November 1738; and (4) Anna Gerdruth, baptized 7 October 1742.
Johann Wilhelm Kuckshaus, son of Peter Kuxhaus & Sybille von der Hoven, married on 27 January 1760 in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Christina Dahm, daughter of Heinrich Dahm & Maria Elisabeth Gerwershagen. Anna Christina Dahm had been born on 17 May 1738 in the historic Hanseatic town of Lennep in Prussia (today in Nordrhein-Westfalen). [See Dahm Family.]
The following births of children born to Johann Wilhelm Kochhaus [sic] & Anna Stina Dahm are recorded in the parish register of Katarina Kyrka (Church of Catherine) in Stockholm, Sweden: (1) Johann Wilhelm, born 25 May 1760; (2) Anna Clara, born 9 March 1762, baptized 11 March 1762; and (3) Anna Louisa, born 28 January 1764, baptized 31 January 1764.
Johann Wilhelm Kuxhausen (age 33), an innkeeper (Weinschenk), his wife Anna Christina (age 32), children (Johann Wilhelm, age 8; Anna Louisa, age 4; Gottlieb Wilhelm, age 2), and his mother-in-law Eva Elisabeth [Dahm] (age 70) are recorded on the 1767 census of Holstein in Household No. 1 along with a note that he is serving as the colony's mayor (Vorsteher). They had arrived in Holstein 26 May 1765.
Johann Jakob Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 32.
Johann Adam Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 37.
Heinrich Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg in Household No. 6.
Georg Adam Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg in Household No. 9.
Johann Friedrich Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg in Household No. 72.
The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Kuxhausen came from the German region of Bergen.
Descendants of this family also use the surname of Kuxhaus.
- 1834 Holstein Census (Households No. 6, 13, 42, 49, 74, 75, 77, 78).
- 1850 Holstein Census (Households No. 9, 18, 67, 83, 113, 114, 116, 117).
- 1857 Eckheim Census.
- 1857 Holstein Census (Households No. 9, 71, 87, 116, 117, 119, 120).
- 1857 Oberdorf Census (Household No. 32).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ho08, Ho12, Ho38.
- Parish register of Erkrath (LDS Film #186,603).
- Parish register of Katarina Kyrka in Stockholm, Sweden (GS Films #77774 & 77775).
- Parish register of Mettmann.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 125.
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