Christian Hauptdrüch, a farmer, his wife [Anna] Elisabeth, and son [Johann] Wilhelm (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Johann Wilhelm Hauptdrüch (age 7) and sister Anna Hauptdrüch (2-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 83 along with their stepfather Johann Friedrich Kraus. [See Kraus Family.]
In 1789, Wilhelm Hauptdrüch moved from Kaneau to Beauregard.
The widow and daughter of Wilhelm Hauptdrüch from Beauregard are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka055.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Hauptdrüch came from the German region of Elsenach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 58.
- 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): Ka055.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 262.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #109.
Brent Mai