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Roger, in Germany, the surname is written "JOST". The letter "y" at the beginning of a word or syllable does not exist in German. In German, the letter "j" at the beginning of a word or syllable is pronounced like the letter "y" is pronounced at the beginning of a word or syllable in English.
Further, in Germany his name would have been JOHANN CHRISTIAN JOST, in that order, and he would have been called by his second given name, Christian.
The correct German spelling of his wife's surname is SAUERWEIN.
You have to be aware that just like the U.S., Germany, too, has always been made up of STATES. Christian Jost and his wife Catharina Margaretha Sauerwein were from what was until 1866 the German state of NASSAU, the capital of which was the city of WIESBADEN. Nassau covered an area a little smaller than that covered by the U.S. state of Delaware.
As did most of the major German states, Nassau sided with Austria (at that time a German state like any of the others) against the German state of PRUSSIA (in German: Preussen; capital: Berlin) in the Austro-Prussian War, or Seven Weeks War, of 1866. Austria and her allies were defeated. Prussia thereupon annexed Nassau as well as the neighboring state of Electoral Hesse (in German: Kurhessen), also known as Hesse-Kassel, from its capital city, and the up to that point Free City of Frankfurt and combined the three territories into what was until 1945 to remain the Prussian province of HESSE-NASSAU, with the city of KASSEL as its capital.
Following World War II and the break-up of the vast state of Prussia by the Allies, most (but not all) of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau and most (but not all) of the pre-1945 state of Hesse (known until 1918 as Hesse-Darmstadt) combined to form today's new postwar German state of HESSE (in German: Hessen), with WIESBADEN, Nassau's former capital, as its capital.
From what I have been able to determine, Johann Christian Jost and Catharina Margaretha Sauerwein were both born in the small city of SANKT GOARSHAUSEN or ST. GOARSHAUSEN ("Sankt" being German for "Saint"), which lies on the most beautiful stretch of the Rhine River. St. Goarshausen is closely connected with the Loreley legend.
Not all of Nassau became part of the new post-World War II German state of Hesse. Most of it did, but not all of it.
Following World War II and the break-up of the vast state of Prussia by the Allies, the southern half of the Prussian Rhineland or Rhine Province, the Bavarian Palatinate (in German: Pfalz), the region of the pre-1945 state of Hesse known as Rhenish Hesse (in German: Rheinhessen), and a very small portion of Nassau combined to form today's new postwar German state of RHINELAND-PALATINATE (in German: Rheinland-Pfalz), with the Rhenish Hessian city of MAINZ as its capital. St. Goarshausen, today a small city of about 1500 people, is located in that small portion of Nassau that forms one of the components of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
You left out a piece of information always vital in German genealogical research: What was Christian Jost's religious denomination?
(My background, by the way, includes six years studying history at the University of Munich in Germany, in case you may be wondering where my historical knowledge comes from.)
Robert
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