Ross (Balzer)
Johannes Ross, son of Johann Martin Ross, was born 20 March 1736 in Hüttengesäß.
He married there on 22 May 1756 to Anna Elisabeth Dörr, daughter of Stephan Dörr & Anna Margaretha Rerig [Röhrig]. She had been born in Hüttengesäß on 28 August 1734. [See Dörr Family.]
Johann[es] Ross, a farmer, his wife [Anna] Elisabeth, and son Johann Heinrich (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 8 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 97.
Heinrich Ross from Balzer is recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. St34.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann[es] Ross came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bz089, St34.
- Parish register of Hüttengesäß.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 101.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4845.
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner