Georg [Heinrich] Helm, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Georg Heinrich Helm, his wife Anna Cunigunda, and son Johannes (age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
The deceased widow Georg Heinrich Helm and their sons are recorded on the 1798 census of Beauregard.
(1) Johannes Helm (age 40) and his family are recorded in Household No. Bo20.
Brothers [a] Konrad, [b] Johann Christoph, [c] Johann Philipp, and [d] Johann Christian Helm, sons of Johannes Helm, are recorded on the 1834 census of Beauregard in Household No. 27.
[a] The death of Konrad Helm in 1851 is recorded on the 1857 census of Beauregard in Household No. 52.
[b] Christoph Helm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Beauregard in Household No. 84.
[c] The death of Philipp Helm in 1856 is recorded on the 1857 census of Beauregard in Household No. 54.
[d] The death of Johann Christian Helm in 1854 is recorded on the 1857 census of Beauregard in Household No. 53.
(2) Christoph Helm (age 30) and his family are recorded in Household No. Bo12.
Christoph Helm and his family (children: [a] Johann Philipp, [b] Johann Jakob, [c] Georg Michael, Anna Elisabeth, Anna Maria) are recorded on the 1834 census of Beauregard in Households No. 19 & 54.
Christoph Helm is recorded on the 1857 census of Beauregard in Household No. 34.
[a] Philipp Helm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Beauregard in Household No. 84.
[b] Johann Jakob Helm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Beauregard in Household No. 34.
[c] Georg Michael Helm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Beauregard in Household No. 34.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Helm was a weaver from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Georg Heinrich Helm was a farmer from the German village of Strebendorf.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Helm family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Beauregard Census (Households No. 19, 27, 47, 54).
- 1857 Beauregard Census (Households No. 34, 35, 52, 53, 84, 91).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Bo12, Bo20.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 136.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4657.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2794-2796.
Brent Mai