Born about 1750 in Germany

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Maria (Hohfeld) Groh is a Volga German.

Maria (Hohfeld) Groh has German Roots.

Family #154 in the 1775 Grimm census.

Family #70 in the 1798 Grimm census.

1767 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family # 79

Head of the Household Balthasar Groh, age 22, Lutheran farmer from Friedberg

Wife Anna Maria Groh, age 17

Brother Konrad Groh, age 19

1775 Grimm Census ^[2]

Family # 154

Head of the Household Baltasar [sic] Groh, age 29

Wife Anna Maria [Hohfeld] Groh, age 25

Child #1 Johann Heinrich Groh, age 6 years 3 months

Child #2 Philip Groh, age 4 years 6 months

Child #3 Wilhelm Groh, age 1 year 9 months

1798 Grimm Census ^[3]

Family # 70

Head of the Household Baltasar [sic] Groh, age 53

Wife Anna Maria Hohfeld, age 48

Child #1 Johann Phillip [sic] Groh, age 27

Child #2 Johann Adam Groh, age 15

Child #3 Dorotea [sic] Groh, age 11

Research Notes

Possible Birth Record #1

Name Johannetta Maria Hoefeldt

Gender Female

Christening Date 26 Sep 1749

Christening Place Gießen, Hessen, Germany

Father's Name Johann Georg Hoefeldt

Mother's Name Catharine Christine

"Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NCZY-LZB : 10 February 2018), Johannetta Maria Hoefeldt, 26 Sep 1749; citing ; FHL microfilm 1,193,406.

Possible Birth Record #2

This record seems less likely because she was born Catholic, but Mehring is close to Büdesheim, from where her husband's family originated.

Name: Anna Maria Hoffelt

Gender: Female

Baptism Date: 11 Mrz 1745 (11 Mar 1745)

Baptism Place: Katholisch, Mehring, Rheinland, Prussia

Father: Mathiae Hoffelt

Mother: Elisabethae Ludwich

FHL Film Number: 585917

Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. See: http://bit.ly/2QHrQAp.

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 #79, Balthasar Groh 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 #154 in the 1775 Grimm census, Balthasar Groh 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 #70 in the 1798 census, Balthasar Groh family.

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