Christoph Heitzenröder, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 2¼) 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.
They settled in the colony of Balzer on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 75.
In 1790, Christoph Heizenröder and his family moved from Balzer to Kukkus.
Christoph Heitzenreder and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kukkus in Household No. Kk30.
The death of Christoph Heitzenreder in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Kukkus in Household No. 62.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Christoph Heitzenreder came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1834 Kukkus Census (Household No. 61).
- 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): 244.
- 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): Kk30, Mv0066.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 94.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1744.
Brent Mai