Johannes Zitterkopf, son of Conrad Zitterkopf & Anna Elisabeth Kleinschmidt, was baptized on 23 August 1686 in Büdingen.
The marriage of Johannes Zitterkopf from Breitenborn and Christina Eichhorn is recorded in the Büdingen parish records on 16 November 1713. Johannes Zitterkopf died 6 September 1714.
The baptism of Johann Konrad Zitterkopf, son of the deceased Johannes Zitterkopf & Anna Christina Eichhorn from Breitenborn, is recorded in the parish register of Büdingen on 2 October 1714. The marriage of Konrad Zitterkopf from Breitenborn [to an unnamed bride] is recorded in the parish register of Spielberg on 19 April 1740.
The parish register of Spielberg records the baptisms of the following children born in Breitenborn to Johann Konrad Zitterkopf & Anna Katharina Charlotta Gemer: (1) Johann Martin, baptized 17 January 1741; (2)
Johann Peter, baptized 10 February 1744; (3) Johann Jost, baptized 7 January 1749; (4) Adam, baptized 16 December 1750; (5) Johann Peter, baptized 7 July 1754; (6) Georg Albrecht, baptized 12 May 1756; (7) Johannes, baptized 4 July 1760; and (8) Anna Eleanore, baptized 17 April 1762.
According to reports made by recruiter Johann Facius, one of those recruited to immigrate to Russia was Konrad Zitterkopf, age 42, of the Reformed faith, from the village of Gettenbach.
Konrad Zitterkopf, a baker, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 18; Peter, age 16; Johannes, age 6; Anna, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
Konrad Zitterkopf, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Katharina Charlotte, and children (Adam, age 20; Johann Peter, age 18; Johannes, age 8; Anna Eleonora, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 58. They had arrived in Huck on 1 July 1767.
Konrad Zitterkopf, his wife Katharina Charlotte, and children (Johann Adam, age 23; Johann Peter, age 21; Johannes, age 15; Eleonora, age 13½) are recorded on the 1775 census of Huck in Household No. 22.
Konrad Zitterkopf and his wife Charlotte are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. 23.
The death of Konrad Zitterkopf in 1799 is recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 22.
(1) Adam Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk23.
Adam Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 27.
(2) Peter Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. 23.
Peter Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 22.
(3) Johannes Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk21.
The death of Johannes Zitterkopf in 1802 is recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 21.
(4) Eleonora Zitterkopf is recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur30 along with her husband Michael Mertz and family.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Zitterkopf came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Huck Census (Household No. 22).
- 1811 Huck Census (Household No. 21, 22, 27).
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Hk21, Hk23, Hk27, Ur30.
- Parish register of Büdingen (LDS Film No. 1197023).
- Parish register of Spielberg (including the village of Breitenborn).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 154.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2642.
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Brent Mai