Waltz (Beideck)
Joel Waltz and his wife Margaretha arrived in the city of Schleswig in Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) on 6 June 1761. They swore their allegiance to the Friedrich of Denmark on 24 July 1761 and settled in the Danish colony of Sophienhamm on 8 August 1761. They moved to the Danish colony of Christiansholm on 29 July 1762.
They were dismissed from the Danish colonies in May 1763 and joined the migration to Russia.
Jost [sic] Waltz, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Regina Katharina, age 12; Margaretha Barbara, age 9; Christina, age 9; Jakob Karl, age 6; Susanna Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 21.
The parish register of Beideck records the parents of Karl Jakob (born 19 April 1769) and Susanna Elisabeth (born 6 May 1772) as Joel Waltz & Margaretha Beideck.
Widower Joel Waltz along with his son and family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd18.
The Eichhorns record that Joel Waltz came from the German region of Württemberg.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 21).
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1751.
- 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): Bd04, Bd18.
- Parish register of Beideck.
Brent Mai
Viktor Bleichrot