Dirlam

Johann Heinrich Dierlam, a son of Johann Heinrich & Maria Dierlam, was born in Vadenrod, a village about 9 kilometers south of Alsfeld, in Hesse, and baptized on 21 April 1727 in the Evangelical Church of Hopfgarten, about 3 kilometers north of Vadenrod. He married to Elisabetha Eifert, daughter of Johann Heinrich Eifert, on 29 November 1748.

They had five known children, each born in Vadenrod and baptized in Hopfgarten: (1) Johann Heinrich, 5 May 1751; (2) Johann Caspar, on 21 November 1753; (3) Anna Maria, on 26 November 1756; (4) Elisabetha, on 8 October 1760; and (5) Johann Heinrich [again] on 26 March 1764.

Johann Dirlam, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann, age 18; Kaspar, age 13; Anna, age 10; Elisabeth, age 6; Heinrich, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Joh. Heinr. Dirlam, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Joh. Heinrich, age 18; Joh. Caspar, age 13, Anna Maria, age 10; Elisabeth, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Heinrich Dirlau [sic], a wagon builder (Wagenbauer), his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann, age 18; Johann Kaspar, age 15; Anna, age 13; Elisabeth, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ernestinendorf in Household No. 3. They had arrived in Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767.

In 1769 Johann Heinrich and his family moved to Biberstein where his son Johann Caspar is recorded on the 1798 Census in Household No. Bb10.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Dirlam came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Dirlau [sic] came from the German village of Vadenrod.