Johann Wendel Hild, son of Johann Christoph Hild & Anna Elisabeth Schmidt, was born in Kleestadt on 26 September 1742. Anna Margaretha Breitwiesser, daughter of Johann Michael Breitwiesser & Maria Margaretha Breitwiesser, was born in Kleestadt on 10 January 1732.
Johann Wendel Hild and Anna Margaretha Breitwiesser were married in Kleestadt on 11 December 1764. Prior to the marriage, Anna Margaretha had a daughter named Anna Eva who was born in Langstadt. She went by the surname of Hild.
The parish register of Kleestadt notes that in July 1766 the family went to "Astrachan" (at the time, this was the name of the region where the Volga German colonies were located).
Wendel Hilt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter (Eva, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Johann Vendel Hild [sic], his wife Anna Margretha, and daughter Eva Maria (age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are believed to have settled in the colony of Hussenbach where daughter Eva is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Hs021 as the wife of Johann Adam Körbel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wendel Hilt came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hildt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 817.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hs021.
- Parish register of Kleestadt.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6544.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7089-7091.
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