Johann Heidt, a farmer, his wife Julianna, and sons (Wilhelm, age 8; Johann, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Friedrich Heidt, a weaver (Weber), his wife Julianna, and sons (Wilhelm, age 8; Friedrich, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 39. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
Friedrich Heidt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Lauwe in Households No. Lw06 & Lw07.
The death of Friedrich Heidt in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Lauwe in Household No. 42.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heidt came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Friedrich Heidt came from the German village of Ecklefstein [Egloffstein?].
- 1834 Lauwe Census (Household No. 42).
- 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): 774.
- 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): Lw06, Lw07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 45.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6201.
Brent Mai