Widower Johann Mittelhof arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Kronverk under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin. He may be the same person who settled in the colony of Kukkus.
Jacob Mittelhoff and his daughter Magdalena (age 19) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Jakob Mittelhof, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 June 1767. His wife died and he remarried to widow Christina Fazius. They and the children from their combined families are recorded in Kukkus on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Mittelhof came from the German village of Niederbiel near Braunfels.
Johann Jakob Mittelhof from Niederbiel appears in documents of the Solms-Braunfels Archives requesting permission to depart for Russia in 1766.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Mittelhof family among the Volga German colonies.
- Kukkus Website (www.kukkus.com) - Origins
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #501.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 470.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2765.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2372-2373.
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