The parish register of Villmar records that Johann Friedrich Hasselbach married on 10 March 1716 to Anna Magdalena Lenhardt.
The parish register of Villmar records the following children born to Johann Friedrich Hasselbach & Anna Magdalena Lenhardt: (1) Maria Magdalena, born 25 March 1717, died 18 June 1718; (2) Katharina Elisabeth, born 12 October 1719, died 27 January 1721; (3) Johann Philipp, born 31 January 1722 in Weyer; (4) Johann Adam, born 28 January 1725 in Weyer, died 27 January 1779 [in Germany]; (5) Anna Margaretha, born 31 July 1727 in Weyer; (6) Heinrich Peter, born in 1732, died 3 December 1772 in Runkel; and (7) Anna Magdalena, born 5 February 1736.
The parish register of Villmar records that Johann Philipp Hasselbach married on 19 January 1745 to Maria Christina Dönges, daughter of Johann Philipp Dönges from Falkenbach.
The birth of the following child born to Johann Philipp Hasselbach & Maria Christina Dönges has been located in the parish register of Villmar: Johann Ludwig, born 7 October 1750.
Johann [Philipp] Hasselbach, a farmer, his wife Anna, and their children (Ludwig, age 17½; Heinrich, age 15¼; Katharina, age 7; Just, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Philip Haselbach [sic], his wife Christina, and children (Ludwig, age 18; Heinrich, age 13¼; Catharina, age 7; Joh. Jost, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Heinrich died en route.
Philipp Hasselbach, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Ludwig, age 20; Katharina, age 8; Johann Jost, age 5) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 41.
In 1786, Johann Jost Hasselbach and his family moved from Näb to Susannental.
Jost Hasselbach and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Susannental in Household No. Ss14.
Ludwig Hasselbach and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb38.
In 1788, Philipp Hasselbach and his family moved from Paulskaya to the Causacus where he died. His widow and daughters returned and settled in Katharinenstadt.
Anna Hasselbach, widow of [Philipp] Hasselbach, and her daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka014.
There are no known surviving male lines of the Hasselbach family in Katharinenstadt.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Hasselbach came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that Philipp Hasselbach came from the German village of Weener [Villmar].
The Igor Plehve translation of the 1767 census records this surname as Hasselblatt, but Hasselbach is correct.
- 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): 682.
- 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): Ka014, Nb38, Ss14, Mv1841, Mv2218.
- Parish register of Villmar.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 270.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5420.
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Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Villmar recording the marriage of Johann Philipp Hasselbach & Maria Christina Dönges on 19 January 1745.
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