There are 3 Johann Loresch families that settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767 after arriving from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii. Two of them are recorded as siblings on the Oranienbaum passenger list (1 & 3). The other one is presumed to be related.
(1) Johannes Loresch (age 20) is recorded on the list of colonists recruited by Johann Facius.
Johannes Loresch (age 21) and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 34.
Johann Loresch and his new wife Anna Barbara Stahl are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk23.
Michael Loresch, son of this Johann, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 39.
(2) Johannes Loresch, son of Valentin & Margaretha Loresch, was born 4 November 1735 in Trübenbronn. He married on 11 February 1766 in Roßbach to Susanna Heimbusch, daughter of Georg Heimbusch.
Johann Loresch (age 32) and his wife Susanna are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 39.
Johann Loresch, his wife Susanna Heimbuch, and their family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk27.
Johannes Loresch, son of this Johann, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Karaman in Households No. 42 & 60.
(3) Johannes Loresch (age 28) is recorded on the list of colonists recruited by Johann Facius.
Johannes Larösch, the younger, from Roßbach in the region of Thun [Thüngen] & Rosina Schæd from Roßbach in the region of Thüngen were married on 7 April 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
Johann Loresch (age 30) and his wife Anna Rosina are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 44.
Johann Loresch, his wife Rosina Scheidt [sic], and their family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk07.
Kaspar Loresch, son of this Johann, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 2.
The Facius List records that both Johannes (#1) and Johannes (#3) came from the German village of Roßbach. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that all three came from the German region of Dienheim.
- 1834 Stahl am Karaman Census (Households No. 2, 39, 42, 60).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 391, 392.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Sk07, Sk23, Sk27.
- 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): #483.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Roßbach.
- Parish register of Trübenbronn.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 199, 201, 202.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2999, #3002.
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