Johann Heinrich Strauch, son of Johann Georg Strauch & Anna Catharina Rodel, was born 19 March 1725 in Nidda. He married Anna Martha Hartung. She had been born 30 April 1726 in Darmstadt.
Heinrich Strauch, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 18; Wilhelm, age 15¼; Anna Margaretha, age 12; Peter, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert. Heinrich died after arriving in Russia and his widow Anna Marta remarried to Peter Frick.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 63 along with her surviving children.
In 1795, widower Johannes Strauch moved from Dönhof to Kutter.
Son Wilhelm is recorded on the 1798 census in the colony of Beideck in Household No. Bd56.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Strauch came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 260.
- 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): Bd56, Dh075, Kt20, Mv0506.
- Parish register of Nidda.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 357, 358.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1866.
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