Johannes Häffner, son of Matthias & Barbara Häffner, married on 23 November 1750 in Gemünden to Margaretha Löffner, daughter of Luka & Anna Maria Löffner.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Häffner & Margaretha Löffner are recorded in the parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden: (1) Maria Dorothea, born 13 February 1752; (2) Anna Maria, born 29 January 1755; and (3) Katharina, born 20 June 1759.
Margaretha Häffner née Löffner died 21 June 1759. Johannes Häffner remarried on 7 October 1760 to Katharina Zahn.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Häffner & Katharina Zahn are recorded in the parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden: (1) Philipp, born 1 May 1761; (2) Maria Eva, born 12 April 1763; and (3) Ursula, born 4 September 1765.
Johann Höffner, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Dorothea, age 16¼; Maria, age 14; Eva, age 5¼; Ursula, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika (The Maiden Frederica) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Johannes Höfner, a cooper (Fassbinder), his wife Katharina, children by his 1st wife (Dorothea, age 16; Anna Maria, age 14), and daughter by his 2nd wife (Barbara, age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 13. They had settled there on 15 July 1767.
In 1788, widower Johann Höppner [sic] moved from Seelmann to Preuss.
Johannes Höppner [sic] and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps48.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Höfner came from the German village of Gemünden in the Würzburg region.
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): 152.
- 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): Ps48, Mv2714.
- Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 152.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #945.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main recording the marriage on 23 November 1750 of Johannes Häffner & Margaretha Löffner.
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Entry from the parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main recording the marriage on 7 October 1760 of Johannes Häffner & Katharina Zahn.
Source: Anonymous2.