Maria Elisabeth (Hess) Schott (abt. 1770 - bef. 1814)

Born about 1770 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

Descendants

Died before 1814 before about age 44 in Grimm, Kamyshin, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Elisabeth (Hess) Schott was a Volga German.

Elisabeth (Hess) Schott has German Roots.

Family #89 in the 1775 Grimm census.
Family #197 in the 1834 Grimm census.

Maria Elisabeth Hess was born in 1770 in Grimm, Russia, to Andreas Hess and Maria Elisabeth (Arne) Hess. She is first listed in the 1775 Grimm census.

1775 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family # 89

Head of the Household Andreas Ges [Hess?], age 33

Wife Maria Elizabeta Hess, age 32

Child #1 Johann Konrad Hess, age 9 months

Child #2 Dorotea Hess, age 6 years 6 months

Child #3 Maria Elizabeta Hess, age 4

Maria Elisabeth married Johann Philipp Schott around 1796, and their first child was born the following year.

1798 Grimm Census ^[2]

Family # 32

Head of the Household Jakob Schott, age 59

Wife Anna Margareta Becker Schott, age 51

Child #1 Johann Philipp Schott, age 27

Wife of Child #1 Elizabeta Hess Schott, age 28

Grandchild #1 Maria Elizabeta Schott, age 1

Child #2 Johannes Schott, age 20

Child #3 Johann Heinrich Schott, age 14

Child #4 Anna Margareta Schott, age 18

Maria Elisabeth probably had only two more children: Nikolaus Schott, born in 1799, and Jakob Peter Schott, born in 1807. Whether she died due to complications of childbirth or a few years later has not yet been confirmed.

By 1815, Johann Philipp Schott had married his second wife, Anna Elisabeth, the widow Gomersheimer, and the couple had their first child together. Note that also living with them in 1834 was Anna Elisabeth's son from her first marriage, Michael Gomersheimer.

Maria Elisabeth is not listed in the 1834 census, but her children are. They are identified as the children of Philipp Schott's first wife.

1834 Grimm Census ^[3]

Family # 197

Head of the Household Philipp Schott, age 63

Wife Anna Elisabeth Schott, age 50, second wife

Child #1 Johann Nikolaus Schott, age 35, by first wife

Wife of Child #1 Maria Barbara Schott, age 27

Grandchild #1 Johann Jakob Schott, age 8

Grandchild #2 Johann Peter Schott, age 6

Grandchild #3 Johann Friedrich Schott, age 3

Grandchild #4 Christian Jakob Schott, age 1

Child #2 Jakob Peter Schott, age 27, by first wife

Wife of Child #2 Elisabeth Schott, age 18

Child #3 Johann Heinrich Schott, age 19, by second wife

Child #4 Philipp Jakob Schott, age 15, by second wife

Child #5 Michael Gomersheimer, age 8 in 1834, stepson to Philipp Schott, to household #266

Sources

1. ↑ 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 #89 in the 1775 Grimm census, Andreas Ges/Hess 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 #32 in the 1798 Grimm census, Jakob Schott family.
3. ↑ 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 60, family #197, Philipp Schott family.