Elizabeth Alt (1840 - 1843)

Born 7 Jul 1840 in Norka, Saratov, Volga Russia

Ancestors

Died 1 Mar 1843 at age 2 in Norka, Saratov, Volga Russia

Biography

Elizabeth Alt was a Volga German.

Elizabeth Alt has German Roots.

Elisabeth Alt was born in 1840 in Norka, Russia, to parents Johannes Alt and Anna Maria Repp. She is not found in the 1857 Norka census. In 1857, she would have been 17 years old and could have been married already. She was probably married and living in another household.

She was a direct descendant of Heinrich Alt and his wife Gertrude Vogel, two of the first settlers of the Village of Norka. ^{[1] [2]} He was a originally a farmer from Schwarzenfels, Hessen. ^[3]

According to the Kulberg Reports, Heinrich and Gertrude Alt immigrated to Russia on 09 August 1766, arriving in St. Petersburg, Russia, on the Russian Galliot Strel 'na under the command of Lt. Sornev. ^[4]

When the family first immigrated from Germany to Russia in 1766, they had no children, but by 1767 they had a 3-month-old daughter named Magdalena. ^[5] In 1775, they had two more children, sons Nikolaus, born 1769, and Johann Just, born 1772. ^[6]

By 1798, daughter Magdalena was no longer living with the family and was probably married and living with her husband's family; Johann Just was also missing from the census and may have passed away. ^[7] Son Nikolaus is there with his wife and two, one of whom was Anna Catharina's grandfather, Johann Heinrich Alt, born in 1810. See Johann Heinrich, 3 months old in the 1811 census. ^[8]

I am waiting to receive a copy of the 1857 Norka census to confirm her birth and death year. It will be the only source. This profile was originally created by someone else who had access to family records but did not provide any details when they added Johann Adam Alt to WikiTree.

Sources

1. ↑ Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Herausgegeben von Alfred Eisfeld under Mitarbeit von Sabine Eichwald, Published by the Nordost-Instsitut - 38085 Göttingen, 2005; page 262, family #125, Heinrich Alt, 33, Reformed Lutheran, farmer from Schwarzenfels, Hesse. Wife: Gertrude, age 24; daughter Magdalens, age 3 months.
2. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Censuses of the German Colony on the Volga Norka, also known as Weigand; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published 1995; family #54, Heinrich Alt, age 67, and wife Gertrude Vogel.
3. ↑ Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, page 262.
4. ↑ Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766, "Reports by Ivan Kulberg," Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Saratov State Technical University; Published in Saratov, Russia 2010; page 317, Johann Heinrich Alt, Reformed Lutheran farmer from Hessen, document number 4978, wife Getrude.
5. ↑ Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, page 262.
6. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Censuses of the German Colony on the Volga Norka, also known as Weigand; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published 1995; page 10, family #54, Heinrich Alt, age 44, wife Gertrude, age 34, son Nikolaus, age 6, son Johann Jost, age 3, daughter Magdalena, age 8.
7. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Censuses of the German Colony on the Volga Norka, also known as Weigand; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published 1995, page 46, daughter Magdalena and son Johann Just are missing from birth family census.
8. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Censuses of the German Colony on the Volga Norka, also known as Weigand; page 46, family #57, Heinrich Alt age 67, wife Gertrude Vogel, age 58, son Nikolaus, 29, Nikolaus' wife Katarina Elisabeta Arn [Arndt?], age 22, son Johann Heinrich, 3 months old, and daughter Elisabeta, age 2.

• 1857 Census of Norka in the District of Saratov, Russia, Dated 21 January 1858, Translated by Dr. Brent Mai, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Published by Dynasty Publishing; Published 2008.