Anthon [sic] Enoch Blanckenstein and Hedewig Sophia Bohm were married on 12 October 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Anton Blankenstein, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Sophia settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3.
The 1767 census records that Anton Blankenstein participated in the Pugachev Rebellion and was consequently imprisoned in 1774 after the revolt was put down.
Widow Sophia Hedwig née Bohmier (widow Blankenstein) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 163 along with daughter Johanna (age 5). A further note records that their whereabouts are unknown.
The 1767 census records that Anton Blankenstein came from the German town of Magdeburg in Sachsen (Saxony). The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Sophia Hedwig née Bohmier (widow Blankenstein) came from the German village of Stargarot[?] in Pommern [Pomerania].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Blankenstein family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 163).
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #32.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 276
Brent Mai