Johann Hartmann Kindsvater, son of Johann Michael & Katharina Elisabeth Kindsvater, was born 1 July 1718 in Herxheim-am-Berg. He married on 31 January 1747 in Herxheim-am-Berg to Anna Margaretha Müller.
The Hartmann Kindsvater, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 20; Daniel, age 18; Elisabeth, age 16½; Sophia, age 14; Justina, age 8; Werner, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.
Hartmann Kindsvater, his wife Anna, and children (Elisabeth, age 27; Johann, age 22; Daniel, age 20; Sophia, age 15; Justina, age 10; Werner, age 6) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna died in route.
The Kindsvater family settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel, but the available 1767 census of Dietel is incomplete and the Kindsvater family is not recorded on the extant portion.
The Kindsvater families of Dietel, Huck, and Kratzke all trace their lines back to this one family that settled in Dietel.
(1) Elisabeth Kindsvater is recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt14 as the wife of Johannes Steinmetz.
(2) Widower Daniel Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt36.
Daniel Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Dietel in Household No. 36 along with a note that his son Konrad relocated to the colony of Kratzke in 1804.
Konrad Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kratzke in Household No. 43.
(3) Sophia Kindsvater is recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt09 as the wife of Georg Adam Becker.
(4) Justina Kindsvater is recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs033.
(5) Werner Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt45.
(6) Johann Georg Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt37.
Johann Georg Kindsvater and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Dietel in Household No. 37.
(7) Philipp Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt38.
Philipp Kindsvater and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Dietel in Household No. 38.
(8) Philipp Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk89.
Philipp Kindsvater, son of Philipp Kindsvater, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk03.
Philipp Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 28.
(9) Johann Daniel Kindsvater and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk90.
Georg Jakob Kindsvater from Kratzke and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Ährenfeld.
- 1811 Dietel Census (Households No. 36, 37, 38).
- 1834 Kratzke Census (Household No. 43).
- 1857 Ährenfeld Census.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dt09, Dt12, Dt14, Dt36, Dt37, Dt38, Dt45, Hk03, Hk89, Hk90.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #6323-6330.
- Parish records of Herxheim-am-Berg.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5875.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6297-6304.
Sergej Kindsvater
Brent Mai