The parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Camberg records the baptism of the following son born to Johannes Adam Denk, a vagabond (vagus) and his wife Maria Klara: Heinrich, born 28 December 1751.
Hans Adam Dink, a farmer, his wife Maria Klara, and children (Hans Peter, age 20; Heinrich, age 15; Maria Katharina, age 10½; Johann Philipp, age 5; Johann Wilhelm, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the ship named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Widow Maria Klara Dink [sic] (age 33) and her daughter Elisabeth (age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 81. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 12 May 1767. A note accompanying the census records that her husband Adam Dink [sic] had died 29 September 1767 and she is living in the household of Vorsteher (mayor) Philipp Leitsinger. [The Pleve publication of the 1767 census does not include some of this information.]
Son Peter Dinkel [sic], a farmer, and his [new] wife Magdalena settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 143.
The 1798 census of Preuss (Ps20) records that widow Magdalena Dinkel [sic] is working in Kamenka.
Son Heinrich Dink has not been located on the 1767 census of Leitsinger or Preuss, but the marriage of his daughter is recorded on the Movement Table accompanying the 1798 census of Preuss.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Adam Dink was a farmer from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Widow Dink's husband was a musician (Musikers) from the German village of Lange in the Kurtrier region. The 1767 census records that son Peter Dink came from the German village of Eppenbrunn in the Kurpfalz region.
Subsequent documents record this surname as Denk.
- 1834 Preuss Census (Households No. 29, 50, 84).
- 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): 137.
- 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): Ps20, Ps39, Mv2370.
- Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 77, 440.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #814.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the 1767 census of Leitsinger recording the Denk Family in Household No. 81.
Source: Anonymous2.