Georg Gottfried Simon, a son of Peter Simon & Philippina Küpperts, was baptized on 21 July 1732 in the Lutheran Church in Haßloch. He married to Barbara Hatzenböhler on 23 May 1758 in the same church.
They had three known children, each baptized in Haßloch: (1) Johann Jost, baptized 23 October 1759; (2) Johann Georg, baptized 7 June 1761; and (3) Georg Daniel, baptized 5 December 1763.
Georg Gottfried Simon and his family immigrated to Russia. They arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyataya Ekaterina (St. Catherine) under the command of Midshipman Alexander Trusov.
The family settled in Dietel, and son Johann Georg is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Dt03.
In 1793, Johann Wendel Simon moved from Dietel to Bauer. It is believed that Johann Wendel Simon is another son of Georg Gottfried Simon.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Simon came from the German region of Pfalz.
- 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): Dt03, Mv0411.
- Parish register of Haßloch (LDS Film No. 488292).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 296.
- Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766 "Reports by Ivan Kulberg" (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2460.
Corina Hirt
Brent Mai