Johann Melchior Ochs, son of Kilian & Anna Margaretha Ochs, was baptized in Oberzell on 3 February 1743.
Johann Melchior Ochs married in Oberzell on 21 February 1764 to Margaretha Albrandt.
The parish register of Oberzell records the baptisms of the following children born to Johann Melchior Ochs & Margaretha Allbrandt: (1) Johannes, baptized 28 August 1764, died 20 September 1764; and (2) Kilian, baptized 18 November 1765.
Melchior Ochs, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
Melchior Ochs (age 27), a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha (age 26), and son Johannes (age 2-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 128. They had arrived in Norka on 15 August 1767. [The Pleve publication of the 1767 census records this surname as Ott.]
Melchior Ochs and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka.
Melchior Ochs and his descendants are recorded on the 1798 census of Pobochnaya in Households No. Pb37 and Pb38.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Melchior Ochs came from the German region of Hessen.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 620.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Pb37, Pb38.
- Norka website (Online)
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 263.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4974.
Steve Schreiber
Brent Mai
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