Johann Jakob Leonhardt (abt. 1746)

Born about 1746 in Isenburg, Hessen

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Died [date unknown] in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Jakob Leonhardt was a Volga German.

Jakob Leonhardt has German Roots.

Family #80 in the 1767 Grimm census.
Family #155 in the 1775 Grimm census.
Family #P-12 in the first Appendix of the 1798 Grimm census.
Family #98 in the 1834 Grimm census.

1767 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family #

Head of the Household Konrad Leonhard, age 39, Lutheran farmer from Isenburg, widower

Child #1 Jakob Leonhard, age 12

Child #2 Philipp Leonhard, age 4

1775 Grimm Census ^[2]

Family # 155

Head of the Household Konrad Leonhard, age 46

Wife Anna Margareta [sic] Leonhard, age 62

Child #1 Johann Jakob Leonhard, age 19 years 6 months

Child #2 Philip Leonhard, age 10

Orphan Katarina [sic] Schikendans, age 19

1798 Grimm Census ^[3]

Family # Appendix #12

Head of the Household Jakob Leonhardt, age 52

Wife Anna Margareta [sic] Lutz Leonhardt, age 47, from Norka

Child #1 Johann Philip [sic] Leonhardt, age 16

Child #2 Christina Margaretha Leonhardt, age 18

Husband of Child #2 Georg Christof [sic] Major, age 25

Grandchild #1 Georg Konrad Major, age 1

Child #3 Louisa Katarina [sic] Leonhardt, age 11

Note: The ages are off between the 1775 census, the 1798 census, and the CVGS Origins file data. It looks like the 1798 age might be the result of a typo. If it was a typo, he was born in the same year as brother Johann Friedrich. We need to determine if they were the same person. He may have had three Christian names, rather than two. Additionally, in the 1834 census, it gives only a 10-year gap between his ages in 1816 and 1834. There should be 18 years between the two (1834-1816 = 18). The age given for him in 1816 is about identical to his age in the 1775 census. If his birthday was late in the year, after the census was taken, that would account for the one-year difference between the two.

1834 Grimm Census ^[4]

Family # 98

Head of the Household Jakob Leonhardt, age 79

Child #1 Philipp Leonhardt, age 51

Wife of Child #1 Anna Margaretha [Trott] Leonhardt, age 47

Grandchild #1 Georg Friedrich Leonhardt, age 9 in 1816, banned from the colony, but he would have been 23 in 1834

Grandchild #2 Johann David Leonhardt, age 22

Wife of Grandchild #2 Charlotta Leonhardt, age 20

Great Grandchild #1 Karl Alexander Leonhardt, age 2

Great Grandchild #2 Anna Charlotta Leonhardt, age 3 months

Jakob Leonhardt is not mentioned in the 1857 census. With a birth year of 1746, he almost certainly passed away before 1846, the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Research Notes

From https://www.volgagermans.org/who-are-volga-germans/origins/surnames/leonhardt-0:

Johann Conrad Leonhard, a son of Johannes Leonhard & Elisabetha Schäffer, was born 22 February 1729 and baptized on 25 February 1729 in the Evangelical Church of Sprendlingen, today a constituent part of the town of Dreieich, located about 10 kilometers south of Frankfurt am Main, in Hesse.

He married to Rahel [sic] Arnould, a daughter of Friedrich Arnould, on 29 July 1755 in the same church. They had four known children, each baptized in Sprendlingen: (1) Johann Friedrich, born 13 May 1756 and baptized 16 May 1756; (2) Conrad, born 19 October 1759 and baptized 21 October 1759; (3) Cyriack, born 8 February 1762 and baptized on 10 February 1762; and (4) Johann Philipp, born 18 December 1764, and baptized 21 December 1764.

Note: Johann Jakob doesn't appear in the above list, but he appears as the 19 1/2-year-old son of Conrad/Konrad Leonhard in the 1775 Grimm census. Either Johann Jakob was accidentally omitted or the research wasn't complete. According to this research, son Johann Friedrich was born the same year as Johann Jakob. We need to determine if they are the same person.

Johann Conrad Leonhard and his family emigrated to Russia, departing from Lübeck by the ship Apollo with the skipper Detlov Merberg. On 29 August 1766 the family arrived at the port in Oranienbaum, Russia.

The Leonhards settled in Grimm about 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 80, along with the orphan Maria Katharina Schicketantz, a daughter of Johann Georg Schicketantz, who had been born on 29 June 1760 in Sprendlingen.

At the time of 1798 Grimm census, Philipp is recorded in Household No. Gm178 and son Jacob is in Household No. Gm179.

Sources

1. ↑ Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 2, Herausgegeben von Alfred Eisfeld under Mitarbeit von Sabine Eichwald, Published by the Nordost-Instsitut - 38085 Göttingen, 2005; page 84, family #80, Konrad Leonhard family.
2. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga, Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published date: 1995; family #155 n the 1775 census, Konrad Leonhard family.
3. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga, Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published date: 1995; family #12 in the Appendix of the 1798 census, Jakob Leonhardt family.
4. ↑ 1834 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 2 February 1835; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2011; page 31, family #98.

See also:

• Pleve, Igor, Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766, Reports by Ivan Kulberg, Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Saratov State Technical University; Published in Saratov, Russia, 2010.

• VolgaGermans.org online database, research from Concordia University Center for Volga German Studies, Who Are Volga Germans, Settlements, Original, Grimm, see https://www.volgagermans.org/who-are-volga-germans/settlements/original/grimm.

• Parish records of Sprendlingen (LDS Film No. 1193263).

• Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001); page 84.

• Pleve, Igor. ists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010); page 320.