Johann Heinrich Kindt was born 2 August 1698 [died 12 January 1779]. He married Elisabeth Busch.
The births of the following children born to Johann Heinrich Kindt & Elisabeth Busch are recorded in the parish register of Rehna: (1) Catharina Elisabeth, born in September 1725, died 31 March 1730; (2) Asmus Adolph, born 6 December 1727, died 1 December 1818 [in Germany]; (3) Cicilia Anna, born 19 September 1729; (4) Johann Peter, born 22 February 1732; and (5) August Christoph, born 22 April 1738. A note on the family register records that August Christoph joined the colonists moving to Russia.
August Kind, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Aug. Christoph Kind is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
August Christoph Kind, a single soldier (Unteroffizier), is recorded in an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 1.
He subsequently resettled to the colony of Kind, and it is after him that the colony received its name.
In 1783, August Kind and his family moved from Kind to Paulskaya.
August Christoph Kind from Kind and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl18.
Christian Kind, son of August Christoph Kind, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 18.
The 1767 census records that August Christoph Kind came from the German village of Ren [Rehna] in the Hannover region.
- 1834 Paulskaya Census (Household No. 18).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Pl18, Mv1288.
- Parish register of Rehna.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 352.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4559.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4899.
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Entry from the parish register of Rehna recording the birth of Johann Heinrich Kindt on 2 August 1698.
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Entry from the parish register of Rehna recording the birth of August Christoph Kindt on 22 April 1738.
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Entry from the parish register of Rehna recording the family of Johann Heinrich Kindt.
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