Widower Heinrich Fladung, a farmer, and his children (Anna Barbara, age 22; Andreas, age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
Heinrich Fladung is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 118 along with his son-in-law Johannnes Kisselmann and his family. Andreas Fladung is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 160.
They are recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Gm148.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Fladung came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Households No. 118 & 160).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 613.
- 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): Gm148.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4909.
Brent Mai