Justus Lotz married Anna Elisabetha Bramm on 25 September 1749 in the Evangelical Church of Alsfeld, about 47 kilometers west of Giessen.
They had four children whose baptisms are recorded in the parish register of Alsfeld: (1) Justus, born 19 December 1750, baptized 20 December 1750; (2) Georg Dieterich, born 23 March 1753, baptized 25 March 1753; (3) Johann Heinrich, born & baptized on 26 August 1755; and (4) Maria Elisabetha, born 12 October 1757, baptized on 13 October 1757.
August Lutz [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Justus, age 16¼; Dietrich, age 14; Heinrich, age 12; Elisabeth, age 8; Katharina, age 5½; Margaretha, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
August Lutz [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Justus, age 16¼; Dietrich, age 14; Heinrich, age 12; Elisabeth, age 8; Catharina, age 5½; Margaretha, age 2¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the youngest two daughters died in route.
Justus and his family arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1766. They are recorded there on 1767 census in Household No. 71.
August [sic] Lotz (age 51), his wife Elisabeth née Bramm (age 43), and children (Justus, age 25; Heinrich, age 19; Heinrich Friedrich, age 8; Maria Elisabeth, age 6; Katharina, age 2½) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 69. Also recorded there are the wife of son Justus (Christina Dorothea née Weber, age 20) and his two children (Anna Elisabeth, born 10 September 1776; Justus, born 10 July 1778). The wife of son Heinrich is also recorded there (Maria née Voigt, age 16). [See Voigt Family.]
Justus Lotz (junior) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka150.
[Maria] Elisabeth Meier née Lotz (widow Fischer) and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household no. Ka149.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that August [sic] Lotz was born in the village of Weissenheim near Zweibrück and that his wife (Elisabeth née Bramm) had been born in the German village of Alsfeld in the Hessen region. Also recorded on the Land Register is that the children of Justus (junior) were born in Engels.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 69).
- 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): 867.
- 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): Ka150.
- Parish records of Alsfeld (LDS Film No. 1336897).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 291.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7054.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3866-3873.
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