Joseph Heiligmar, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Eva, age 18; Stephan, age 13; Johann, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Joh. Heiligmar, his wife Barbara, and sons (Stephan, age 13; Georg, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with Maria Eva Heiligmar who is recorded separately.
Joseph Heiligmeier, a soldier (Soldat), his wife Barbara, and sons (Stephan, age 14; Georg, age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 81 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Zug in 1768.
The death of Stephan Heiligmann [sic] on 2 October 1811 is recorded in the parish register of Schönchen.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Heiligmeier came from the German village of Hof.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Zg25, Zg40.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #4721 [not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Parish register of Schönchen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 367.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5660-5663, 5665.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Joseph Heiligmeier and his family (#4721).
Source: Brent Mai.
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