Heinrich Kieffer, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 11; Anna, age 5¼; Katharina, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Heinrich Kieffer, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 16. They had settled there on 15 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Kieffer came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Kieffer came from the German village of Dasbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kieffer 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): 144.
- 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): #877.
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