Johann Hülst, son of Just Wilhelm Hülst & Johanna Elisabeth Juncker, was born 13 August 1747 and baptized on 17 August 1747 in Gedern.
Johannes Hilß is recorded on the list of immigrants by Johann Facius: Actum Aufenau den 10 Februar 1766 Johannes Hilß, 18 Jahre alt, ledigen Standes, von Gedern, ein guter Ackerknecht, evangelischer Religion [Gathering at Aufenau on 10 February 1766 was Johannes Hils, 18-years-old, single, from Gedern, a good farmhand, Lutheran].
Johann Hils, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johannes Hills [sic], a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 61.
Johann Hilß along with his wife and daughters are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw31.
Johannes Hilß died on 3 December 1802 in Reinwald at the age of 55.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Hils came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Hills came from the German village of Gedern in the region of Stolberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hilß family among the Volga German colonies.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 232.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Rw31.
- Parish register of Gedern.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 46.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1652.
Brent Mai
Victor 2 & Galena from the Forum of Wolgadeutsche.net
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