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Hei(d)t (Semenovka)

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Heid (Semenovka)
Heidt (Semenovka)
Heit (Semenovka)
Гейдтъ (Semenovka)
Гейдъ (Semenovka)
Гейтъ (Semenovka)
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Discussion & Documentation

The baptism on 15 August 1743 of Johann Jakob Heid, son of Johannes Jakob Heid & Anna Maria Dehmer, is recorded on the parish register in Orb.

Johann Jakob Heidt, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.

He is recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se19.

Johann Jakob Heid died on 22 February 1811 in the colony of Semenovka.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Jakob Heidt came from the German region of Mainz.

Sources

- 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): 756.
- Kertel, Karola. Ortsfamilienbuch Bad Orb. [Online]
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Se19.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6049.

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Brent Mai

Max Weinbinder