Anna Maria Andres (abt. 1755)

Born about 1755 in Kurpfalz, Germany

Died [date unknown] in Russia

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Biography

Anna Andres was a Volga German.

Anna Andres has German Roots.

Family #42 in the 1767 Dönhof census.
Family #42 in the 1775 Dönhof census.

Birth Date and Place

• about 1755
• probably Kurpfalz, Germany

Parents

• Jakob Andres
• Unknown mother

According to The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766, Anna Maria Andres was the member of a family who first immigrated to Denmark before immigrating to Russia. ^[1] Her father was a Danish colonist from Brandenburg in what is now Germany.^[1] That may be the town he was born in, or it may be where he lived prior to immigrating to Denmark, as he was recorded as being from Kurpfalz in the 1767 Dönhof census. He traveled with a wife and one child, neither of whom are named.^[1] An age is not given for the child.^[1] If Anna Maria/Anna Catharina was truly born in 1755, then this child must be her.

According to Danish records, she and her family arrived in Schleswig on 24 July 1762, with her parents taking their oath of allegiance on 07 October 1762.^[1] Also traveling with the family was his widowed sister-in-law Margaretha Krautscherpels, along with one child.^[1] The family was recorded as livig at Number 2 Basballes Hof in Colony F8 Christiansheide in the Flensburg area. They deserted Denmark in 1765 and were later identified as living in Dönhof, one of the Volga German colonies near the Volga River in Russia.^[1].

The family was recorded as living in Dönhof in the 1767 census. Anna Maria is not named in the 1767 Dönhof census, but her age corresponds with a child named Anna Catharina who was 12 years old that year. It's not clear if her name was really Anna Maria Catharina, Anna Catharina Maria, or if one of those names in one of the census records was wrong. I am including the Dönhof census in case she turns out to be a match.

Additionally, unless her age was wrong, which it very well could have been, Eva Catharina is not likely her mother. Eva Catharina was only 11 years old at the time of Anna Catharina's birth, according to the 1767 Dönhof census. There is no notation that Eva Catharina is not the mother of the two girls in the 1767 census or in the 1775 census. Until I can ascertain which fact is incorrect, name, age, or mother, if any, I will leave her attached to Eva Catharina Schrumberger as her mother.

1767 Dönhof Census ^[2]

Family # 42

Head of the Household Jacob Andres, age 34, Lutheran farmer from Kurpfalz

Wife Eva Catharina Andres, age 23

Child #1 Anna Catharina Andres, age 12

Child #2 Catharina Barbara Andres, age 2

By 1775, her father had passed away and she was living with her mother and step father, Ludwig Fritzler, and their three month old son Georg Friedrich Fritzler, along with her sister named in the 1767 census, Catharina Barbara. The gap between the ages of the children suggests that her father passed away before 1773, her mother remarried by 1774, and in 1775 her mother gave birth to Georg Friedrich.

1775 Dönhof Census ^[3]

Family # 42

Head of the Household Ludwig Fritzler, age 24

Wife Widow of Jakob Andreas [Eva Catharina Schrumberger]

Child #1 Georg Friedrich Fritzler, age 3 months

Child #2 Anna Maria [Andres], age 18

Child #3 Christina Barbara [Andres], age 9

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Eichhorn, Alexander, Dr., and Dr. Jacob and Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766, Druck and Bindung: Druckerei and Verlap Steinmeier GmbH & Co. KG, 86738, Deiningen, Germany; Published 2012; pages 25, 314, 336, and 666.
2. ↑ Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 1, Herausgegeben von Alfred Eisfeld under Mitarbeit von Sabine Eichwald, Published by the Nordost-Instsitut - 38085 Göttingen, 2005; page 352, family #42, Anna Catharina Andres, age 12.
3. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census Revisions of The Volga German Colony of Gololobovka, also known as Dönhof; Published by: The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: Published date: 1995; family #42 in the 1775 Dönhof Census, Ludwig Fritzler family.