Johann Heintz [sic], a locksmith (Schlosser), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Johann Hayn [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Michael Hein, a locksmith (Schlosser), and his wife Anna Rebekka settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 128 along with stepdaughter Katharina [surname not recorded] (age 15).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heintz [sic] came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johannes Michael Hein came from the German village of Siegen in the Nassau region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hein family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2055.
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