Maria Katharina Elisabeth (Schultz) Koch (abt. 1767 - bef. 1834)

Born about 1767 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

Descendants

Died before 1834 before about age 67 in Grimm, Kamyshin, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Katharina (Schultz) Koch was a Volga German.

Katharina (Schultz) Koch has German Roots.

Family #26 in the 1767 Grimm census.

Family #110 in the 1775 Grimm census.

Family #103 in the 1798 Grimm census.

Maria Katharina Schultz was born in July of 1767, just two weeks before the first census of Grimm, Russia, was taken. Her parents were Gottlieb Schultz and Sophia Annetta (Unknown) Schultz. In the 1775 census, she is identified as Maria Carolina, but her age shows that she is the same person as Maria Katharina in the 1767 census. The name Carolina is probably a census taker error. In 1798, she is identified as Maria Elisabeth Schultz Koch, and daughter Maria Katharina Schultz is a match in every way except name. It's possible that she was given three christian names at birth, Maria Katharina Elisabeth, and by 1798 she was simply using Maria Elisabeth in village records.

1767 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family #: 26

Head of the Household: Gottlieb Schultz, 27, Lutheran craftsman from Darmstadt

Wife: Sophia Annette, 37

Stepson: Ludwig, 12 [no surname given]

Daughter: Sophia, 7 [probably also a stepdaughter]

Daughter: Maria Katharina, 2 weeks old

1775 Grimm Census ^[2]

Family #: 110

Head of the Household: Gottlieb Schultz, age 33

Wife: Sophia, age 44

Child #1: Maria Carolina [sic], age 7 years 6 months

Child #2: Katharina, age 2

Stepson: Ludwig Vitkher, [ ? ] age 18

Stepdaughter: Sophia Vitkher, [ ? ] age 14

1798 Grimm Census ^[3]

Family # 103

Head of the Household Johannes Koch, age 30

Wife Maria Elizabeta [sic] Schultz Koch, age 31

Child #1 Johann [sic] Koch, age 6

Child #2 Katarina [sic] Koch, age 3

Mother Juliana Koch, widow, no age listed

She is not named in the 1834 census, although her husband and children are. It's possible that she had passed away, even though her husband is not named as a widower. The most likely scenario is that she passed away before 1816, and her husband was identified as a widower in the interim, male-only census taken in 1816. Had she survived to 1834, she would have been 67 years old.

1834 Grimm Census ^[4]

Family # 308

Head of the Household Johannes Koch, age 66

Child #1 Wilhelm Koch, age 34

Wife of Child #1 Maria Magdalena Koch, age 34

Grandchild #1 Johann Peter Koch, age 12

Grandchild #2 Heinrich Konrad Koch, age 8

Grandchild #3 Anna Katharina Koch, age 6

Grandchild #4 Wilhelm Ludwig Koch, age 5

Grandchild #5 Friedrich Koch, age 6 months

Child #2 Johann Ludwig Koch, age 31

Wife of Child #2 Anna Katharina Koch, age 30

Grandchild #6 Philipp Koch, age 12

Grandchild #7 Maria Elisabeth Koch, age 11

Child #3 Georg Konrad Koch, age 28

Wife of Child #3Anna Charlotta Koch, age 27

Grandchild #8 Elisabeth Koch, age 4

Grandchild #9 Katharina Elisabeth Koch, age 3

Grandchild #10 Anna Margaretha Koch, age 1

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 76, family #26, Gottlieb Schultz 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, NE, USA; Published 1995, family #110, Gottlieb Schultz 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 #103 in the 1798 census, Johannes Koch 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 84, family #308, Johannes Koch family.