Spelling Variations
Heller (Laub)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Georg Heller, a single farmer, and his mother Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Heller came from the German village of Bubenheim in the Kurpfalz region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 21.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2163.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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