Two Würtz families arrived together from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Гданьская Надежда (Gdansk Hope) under the command of Skipper Johann Erdmann Geske. They are both recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck. Their relationship to each other, if any, is not recorded on either the Oranienbaum passenger list or the 1775 census of Beideck.
(1) Johann[es] Würtz, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and son Johann (age 2¼) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johannes Würtz (age 36), his wife Maria Barbara, and sons (Georg Heinrich, age 8; Heinrich Philipp, age 4; Johannes, age 1) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 3.
Johannes (father) Würtz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd62.
Heinrich Georg [sic] Würtz from Beideck is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb08.
Johannes (son) Würtz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd30.
(2) Marcel Würtz, a farmer, and his wife Rosina arrived in Oranienbaum.
Marcel Würtz (age 30), his wife Maria Elisabeth, and sons (Georg Heinrich, age 4½; Johann Peter, age 2) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 33.
In 1790, Marcel Würtz and his family moved from Beideck to Dreispitz.
The 1798 census of Dreispitz records Johann Michael Würtz (age 4), son of the deceased Peter Würtz, in Household No. Dr22. He is identified there as the stepson of Friedrich Kohlberg, but he is believed to be the stepson of Johann Adam Bender whose deceased wife had been previously married to Peter Würtz.
Michael Würtz, son of Peter Würtz, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 73.
Michael Würtz and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 103.
- 1775 Beideck Census (Nos. 3, 33).
- 1834 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 73).
- 1850 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 103).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 83.
- 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): Bd30, Bd62, Dr22, Lb08, Mv0210.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #320, #321.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Marcel Würtz and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Würtz and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.