Mathias Hahn married on 24 February 1724 in Hattersheim to Gertrude Riel [?].
The baptism of Friedrich Hahn, son of Mathias Hahn & Gertrude Riel, is recorded on 15 December 1735 in the parish register of St. Martin Catholic Church in Hattersheim.
The parish register of St. Martin Catholic Church in Hattersheim records the births of the following children to Friedrich & Barbara Hahn: (1) Adam, born 23 October 1763, died 23 October 1763; and (2) Apollonia, born 7 February 1765.
Friedrich Hahn, a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18.
Following the destruction of Keller, Friedrich Hahn and his family were among those who founded the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
In 1788, Friedrich Hahn and his family moved from Neu-Kolonie to Preuss.
Widower Friedrich Hahn is recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps46.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Hahn came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Friedrich Hahn came from the German village of Hattersheim in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hahn family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 143
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ps46, Mv1860.
- Parish register of St. Martin Catholic Church in Hattersheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 345.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #868.
Brent Mai
Anonymous2
Entry from the parish register of St. Martin Catholic Church in Hattersheim recording the baptism of Friedrich Hahn on 15 December 1735.
Source: Anonymous2.