The parish register of St. Bartholomäus Catholic Church in Biblis records that Georg Balthasar Haas, son of Johann Michael & Anna Barbara Haas, was born 28 March 1721 in Biblis.
He married on 8 February 1746 in Hofheim to Agatha Ulmer, daughter of Johannes & Eva Maria Ulmer from Bobstadt.
The baptisms of the following children born to Georg Balthasar Haas & Agatha Ulmer are recorded in the parish register of Bobstadt: (1) Maria Magdalena, born 19 May1749; Johann Philipp, born 2 May 1752; (3) Johann Wilhelm, born 3 November 1755; and (4) Barbara, born 24 August 1758.
Balthasar Haas, a farmer, his wife Agatha, and children (Maria Magdalena, age 18; Johann Philipp, age 16; Johann Wendel, age 11; Anna Barbara, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius (Mercury) under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
The parents died and the surviving children settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37 where Maria Magdalena is married to Philipp Hiltenberger.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Balthasar Haas came from the German region of Mainz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 426.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sd21.
- Parish register of Hofheim (Bergstraße).
- Parish register of St. Bartholomäus Catholic Church in Biblis.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 175.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3325.
- Schleicher, Marcel. Ortsfamilienbuch Biblis [Online].
Brent Mai
cilian (wolgadeutsche.net forum)
Anonymous2
Entry from the parish register of St. Bartholomäus Church in Biblis recording the birth of Georg Balthasar Haas on 28 March 1721.
Source: Anonymous2.