Johann Daniel Lotz married Catharina Herzog and they had at least three children, each baptized in the Evangelical Church of Villingen, a village about 68 kilometers north-northeast of Frankfurt am Main: (1) Anna Maria, baptized on 16 March 1757; (2) Johann Heinrich, baptized on 13 July 1759; and (3) Johann Georg, baptized on 3 January 1765.
Johann Daniel Lotz, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his wife Katharina, and children (Anna, age 10; Johann, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
They settled on 10 May 1767 in the Volga German colony of Kaneau, where they are recorded on the 1767 Census in Household No. 76.
On the 1798 Census, widow Catharina and her family are still living in Kaneau, recorded in Households No. Kn26 & Kn28.
The 1850 census of Rosental in Household No. 23 records that Daniel Lotz and his family moved from Kaneau to Rosental in 1847.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Daniel Lotz came from the German region of Villingen.
- 1850 Rosental Census (Household No. 23).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 61.
- 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): Kn26.
- Parish records of Villingen (LDS Film No. 1336791).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 260.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #132.
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Brent Mai