Johannes Winckelhausen, son of Balthasar Winckelhausen & Anna Maria Elisabeth Heid, was born 8 June 1727 in Rüddingshausen. He married Anna Elisabetha Dick, daughter of Johann Ludwig Dick & Anna Helena Seipp, on 19 July 1753 in Rüddinghausen. She was the widow of Jost Klinckel & Friedrich Becker. She had been born in Rüddinghausen on 4 August 1715. They have one known daughter, Anna Maria who was born 6 December 1753.
Mother Anna Elisabetha Dücker Winckelhausen died in March 1766 (buried 21 March 1766). Her widower Johannes Winkelhausen immigrated to Russia, evidently leaving daughter Anna Maria in the care of relatives [she later married Johann Philipp Rohrbach and died on 5 May 1836 in Lollar].
Johannes Winkelhausen, a farmer, and his [new] wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Joh. Winckelhausen, his wife Anna Cath., and daughter Maria (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are recorded on the transports from Oranienbaum to the Volga colonies, and the birth of a daughter, Maria, is noted during this trip.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767, and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 29.
In 1769, Johann Winkelaus [sic] and his family moved from Ernestinendorf to Schönchen.
The 1798 census of Pobochnaya records Johann Wilhelm Winkelaus [sic] (age 25) from Schaffhausen in Household No. Pb39.
The minutes of the Guardianship Office on 17 March 1809 (ГАСО ф.180 оп.1 д.62 л.263) records that Wilhelm Wilkenhaus left Pobochnaya five years ago and has not returned. At that time he was staying at the winery of Court Councilor Kropotov.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Winkelhausen came from the German region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Ruttershausen [evidently Rüddingshausen].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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- 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): Pb39, Mv0289, Mv0564.
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