Peter Noa [sic] Hinckelmann, son of Johann Hinckelmann & Maria Barbara Schumacher, was baptized 6 June 1766 in the Lutheran Church of St. Petri in Lübeck.
Johann Hinkelmann, a tailor, his wife Barbara, and sons (Engelbert, age 2¼; Noah, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Johann Hinkelmann, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Maria Barbara settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 5 September 1767. [The child mentioned above is not recorded with them so must have died before arrival.] They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 61 along with a note that because of illness their debt has been assumed by colonist Kuhlmann.
Widower Johann Hinkelmann, his daughter, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm11.
The death of Johannes Hinkelmann is recorded on 12 January 1802 (at the age of 77 years) in the parish register of Wittmann.
It has not been confirmed that these two Johann Hinkelmann men are the same person. The one who settled in Laub is recorded to be of the Lutheran faith. Wittmann, however, was a colony of predominantly Roman Catholic colonists.
The 1767 census records that Johann Hinkelmann came from the German region of Wetzlar.
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): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 384.
- 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): Wm11.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1354.
- Parish register of St. Petri Lutheran Church in Lübeck (LDS Film No. 326264).
- Parish register of Wittmann.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 35.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2937.
Brent Mai