Friedrich Bottof [sic], his wife Ursula, and daughters (Anna, age 20; Margaretha, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Johann Friedrich Potthof, a saddle maker (Sattler), his wife Dorothea, and daughters (Maria, age 19; Margaretha, age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 100 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Potthof came from the German village of Beuna.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 886.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 370.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7242
Brent Mai