Johann Heinrich Hessler, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and [step-]son Konrad [Pieh] (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Konrad Pieh, a farmer, and his [new] wife are recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 15. They had arrived in Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767.
Konrad Pieh and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. Ks017.
Konrad Pieh and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 13 along with a note that Konrad died in 1822.
Descendants of the Pieh family are recorded on the 1850 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 19.
Descendants of the Pieh family are recorded on the 1857 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 18.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Pieh came from the German region of Laubach.
[Some translations of documents for this surname use the spelling Biehn (Пинъ).]
- 1834 Krasnoyar Census (Household No. 13).
- 1850 Krasnoyar Census (Household No. 19).
- 1857 Krasnoyar Census (Household No. 18).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 538.
- 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): Ks017.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 417.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4163.
Brent Mai