Sartorius
Johann Friedrich Sartorius, son of Julius (a miner) & Magdalena Juliana (from Winnemuth) Sartorius, was born 5 August 1736 in Nentershausen in Grafschaft Hessen-Kassel. He was baptized in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nentershausen on 7 August 1736.
Wilhelm [Friedrich] Sartorius, a single weaver, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
Friedr. Wilh. Satorius [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46 along with his wife Elisabeth (age 28) and stepchildren: Peter Schmidt (age 12), Johann Ludwig Schmidt (age 9), and Johannes Schmidt (age 2). Elisabeth is not old enough to be the mother of all of these Schmidt children.
Johann Friedrich Sartorius died of tuberculous on 11 March 1801 in Nieder-Monjou.
The original reads: "am 11. März ist Friedrich Särtorius an der Brustschwäche gestorben, alt 69 Jahre."
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Sartorius came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Merzhausen [evidently Nentershausen].
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Nm21.
- Parish register of Nentershausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 195.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5571.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3034.
Karl Becker
Brent Mai
Entry from the parish register of Nentershausen recording the birth of Johann Friedrich Sartorius on 5 August 1736.
Source: Karl Becker.
Entry from the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou recording the family of Friedrich Sartorius in Household No. 46. The surname is quite garbled.
Source: Karl Becker.
Entry from the parish register of Nieder-Monjou recording the death of Friedrich Sartorius on 11 March 1801.
Source: Karl Becker.