Heinrich Klein (age 27), a potter (Häfner), his wife Christina Johannetta Just (age 39), and [step?-]daughter Catharina Barbara (age 10) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 14 September 1765.
Johann Heinrich Klein, a farmer, his wife Christina Henrietta [sic], daughter Katharina Margaretha (age 2), and step-daughter Katharina Barbara (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 7. They had arrived in Bauer on 20 July 1766.
Heinrich Klein and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br62.
The 1765 Worms list records that Heinrich Klein came from the German village of Speyer. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Klein came from the German village of Schönfeld in the Kurpfalz region.
There do not appear to be any surviving male lines of this Klein family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 118 (#145-147).
- 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): Br62.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 117.
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