Hieronimus Pohl and Johanna Maria Sophia Berckler were married on 24 October 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Hieronimus Pohl, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Johann Maria Bakler, and son Johann (age 9-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 70. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.
Hieronimus Pohl and his wife Johanna Maria Bekler [sic] are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 149 along with a note that they are in Saratov.
The 1767 census records that Hironimus Pohl came from the German region of Hanau. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Lang Register records that Hieronimus Pohl came from the German city of Hanau and that his wife came from the Dutch village of Mastrecht.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 149).
- 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): #43.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 291.
Brent Mai