Johann Caspar Henneberger, son of Johannes (1692 - 20 March 1762) & Margaretha (1675 - 10 February 1739) Henneberger, was born in 1713 in the region of Thüngen. He married in Zeitlofs on 18 February 1738 to Elisabeth Margaretha Märtin, daughter of Martin Märtin. She had been born in 1717 in Dittlofsroda.
They have 6 known children, each born in Weißenbach: (1) Dorothea, born 29 November 1738; (2) Johann Adam, born in 1739; (3) Catharina, born in 1744; (4) Eva Elisabeth, born 8 July 1745; (5) Johann Caspar, born 11 December 1748; and (6) Philippus, born 12 January 1752.
Johann Caspar Henneberg(er), a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Katharina, age 22; Elisabeth, age 20; Kaspar, age 18; Philipp, age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
The parents (Johann Caspar & Elisabeth Margaretha) died during the trip between Oranienbaum and Saratov. The surviving children settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767.
(1) Dorothea Grau née Henneberg and her family are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karman in Household No. 49.
The death of Dorothea Grau née Henneberg on 9 November 1797 is recorded in the parish register of Stahl am Karaman.
(2) Adam Henneberg married on 29 January 1766 in Weißenbach to Eva Katharina Friedrich.
Adam Henneberg and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 33.
In 1797, Adam Henneberg moved from Stahl am Karaman to Fischer.
(5) Kaspar Henneberg and his family are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 32.
(6) Philipp Henneberg is recorded with his brother Kaspar's family on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 32 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Rosenheim in 1768.
Philipp Henneberg from Schwed [sic] is recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm37.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that this Henneberg(er) family came from the German region of Dienheim.
Records in Russian and succeeding generations of this family use the surname of Henneberg rather than Henneberger.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 389.
- 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): Fs28, Rm37, Sk02, Sk14, Mv2815.
- Parish register of Stahl am Karaman.
- Parish register of Weißenbach (Zeitlofs).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 199.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2982, #2983.
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