Hermann Heinrich Arnst, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Dorothea, and his daughter from his first marriage (Magdalena Elisabeth, age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schäfer in Household No. 35. They had arrived in Schäfer on 1 August 1766.
A note on the 1767 census records that the Arnst family resettled to the colony of Reinhard in 1768.
Hermann Arnst from Schäfer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rohleder in Households No. Rh03 & Rh05.
The 1767 census records that Hermann Heinrich Arnst came from the German region of Hamburg and that his wife came from the German village of Güstrov in the Mecklenburg region.
- 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): Rh03, Rh05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 98.
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