Heinrich Jacob Noß, the son of Johann Heinrich Noß, was baptized in Wolf on 21 March 1717. Heinrich Jacob Noß from Wolf married in Bindsachsen on 17 January 1743 to Juliana Politch (from Usenborn), widow of Georg Braun from Bindsachsen. Juliana died in Bindsachsen on 18 January 1744 at age 44. On 9 December 1744 in Wenings, the widowed Heinrich Jacob Noß from Bindsachsen married the widowed Elisabetha Link from Wenings. The marriage record notes that Elisabetha was born in Seemen. Heinrich Jacob and Elisabetha arrived in Russia with six children. Five of the children were baptized in Wenings: Johanna Elisabetha, baptized 14 December 1745: Johann Georg, baptized 10 December 1747; Johann Georg Ernst, baptized 28 June 1750; Johannes, born 19 November, baptized 23 November 1755; and Johann Heinrich, born 25 December, baptized 26 December 1758. The baptism of their sixth child, named either Johanna Amalia or Anna Magdalena or Anna Maria, was not found in the Wenings parish records.
The family arrived in Russia on 14 August 1766. According to the Transport Lists, Johann Jacob Nuss died during the journey to the villages.
The widowed Anna Elisabeth Nuss and her six children settled in Messer, and are reported there on the 1767 Census (First Settlers List) in Household #88.
The 1775 Census of Messer reports Georg Nuss, his wife Carolina, mother Anna, daughter Wilhelmine, and brothers Johannes and Johann Heinrich (incorrectly listed as his sons in the published translation).
The Messer 1798 Census reports Carolina Nuss, widow of George Nuss, and her family in Household #24. The Merkel 1798 Census reports Johannes Nuss and Anna Barbara Nuss, two children of the deceased Johann Heinrich Nuss from Messer in Household #14. The movement tables in the 1798 Census report that Wilhelmina Nuss moved to Merkel to marry and she and her family are reported in Merkel Household #21. The Grimm 1798 Census reports Amalia Nuss from Messer in Household #148. The Dobrinka 1798 Census reports Georg Ernst Nuss in Household #40 and the Müller 1798 Census reports Johannes Nuss in Household #1.
- Parish records of Wolf accessed on Archion.de and FHL Film #1201845 on permanent loan at Wilmette Illinois Family History Center.
- Parish records of Bindsachsen accessed on Archion.de.
- Parish records of Wenings accessed on Archion.de and FHL Film #1201721 on permanent loan at Wilmette Illinois Family History Center.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010) p. 364
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Andreas Idt, Georg Rauschenbach, 2019): p. 33
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten Auf Dem Weg Von St. Petersburg Nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: 2017): p. 335
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institute, 2005): p. 152
- 1775 Census of Ust-Zolikha also known as Messer (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1995)
- 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): Volume 1, pp. 366, 473, 710, 711, 715, 736; Volume 2, p. 1122
