Michael Heinrich, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 22; Georg, age 14; Kunigunda, age 12; Anna, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 15 June 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 41.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Michael Heinrich came from the German region of Mainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heinrich family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 380.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 387.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2896.
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