The baptism of Johannes Jacob Hailandt [sic], son of Johannes Heinrich & Apollonia Hailandt, is recorded in the parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg on 7 July 1749 in Camberg.
Jakob Heiland, the single servant of Christian Gilau, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
He arrived in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census as a farmer in Household No. 138.
Jakob Heiland and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps01.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Heiland came from the German village of Kamberg [today Bad Camberg] in the Kurtrier region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 278.
- 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): Ps01.
- Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 439.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2016.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg recording the baptism of Johannes Jacob Hailandt on 7 July 1749.
Source: Anonymous2.