Johann Peter Heÿl, son of Georg & Anna Maria Heÿl, was born 10 February 1715 in Hailer. He married in Hailer on 22 February 1742 to Anna Catharina Weber, daughter of Johann Daniel & Elisabetha Weber. She had been born 6 November 1719 and baptized 9 November 1719 in Hailer.
Johann Peter Heÿl and Anna Catharina Weber had two children, both born in Hailer: (1) Johann Conrad, born 27 December 1742, baptized 30 December 1742; and (2) Anna Margaretha, born 3 June 1745, baptized 7 June 1745.
Anna Margaretha Heil married Georg Heinrich Engel on 7 November 1765 in Hailer. Georg Heinrich Engel (son of Johann Conrad Engel) was born 1 April and baptized 6 April 1732 in Hailer.
Peter Heil, a farmer, his wife [Anna] Katharina, and son Konrad (age 22) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov. Daughter Anna Margaretha and her husband Georg Heinrich Engel arrived in Oranienbaum on the same ship. [See Engel Family.]
They settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 8 August 1767. Widow Anna Katharina Heil is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 96 along with her daughter and son-in-law (Heinrich Engel). Son Konrad Heil is recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 92 along with his [new] wife Eleonora [Juncker]. [See Juncker Family.]
In 1790, Johann Heil moved from Balzer to Lauwe.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that this Heil family came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 522.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bz006, Lw18, Mv0055.
- Parish register of Nieder-Mittlau (including Hailer).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 99, 101.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4113.
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