Maggie Hein has identified two possible matches in the Stumpertenrod parish records for the Johann Heinrich Hünergardt who immigrated to Russia.
(1) Johann Heinrich Hünergardt, son of Johann Adam Hünergardt of Helpershain, was baptized on 12 September 1743.
(2) Johann Heinrich Hünergardt, son of Johann Heinrich Hünergardt of Helpershain, was baptized 10 July 1745.
Further research is needed to determine which one went to Russia.
Johann Heinrich Hünergardt, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a ship named Кир Иоанн (Cyrus John) under the command of Midshipman Gavriil Poddubskii.
Joh. Heinr. Hünergard is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Heinirch Hünergard (age 22), a farmer, and his [new] wife Maria Elisabeth (age 23) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stephan in Household No. 24. They had arrived in Stephan on 24 August 1767.
The widow and children of Johann Heinrich Hünergardt are recorded on the 1798 census of Stephan in Household No. Sp09.
The death of Heinrich Hünergardt, son of Johann Heinrich Hünergardt, in 1816 is recorded on the 1834 census of Stephan in Household No. 19.
In 1830, Johann Konrad Hünergardt, son of Heinrich Hünergardt, moved from Stephan to Shcherbakovka.
Georg Heinrich Hünergardt from Stephan and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Friedenberg.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Hünergardt came from the German region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Helpershain.
- 1834 Stephan Census (Household No. 19).
- 1857 Friedenberg Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 700.
- 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): Sp09.
- Parish register of Stumpertenrod (including Helpershain).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 226.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5585.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2282.
Brent Mai
Maggie Hein