August Hillenbach, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Daniel, age 20; Dorothea, age 17¼; Elisabeth, age 14; Karl, age 11; Karolina, age 7; Henrietta, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax along with maiden Anna Elisabeth and her daughter Margaretha (age ½) [who are not recorded in the Pleve publication of the Kuhlberg List] .
Orphan Karolina Dorothea Hillenbach (age 11) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 15 along with the Jakob Dietrich family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Dietrich and Hillenbach families.
She is assumed to have settled in the colony of Kind which is where the Dietrich family settled.
Karolina Hillenbach (age 20) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 76 along with her husband Christian August Weltz (age 25). [See Weltz Family.]
Karolina Hillenbach from Orlovskaya is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt as the widow of August Weltz and current wife of Johannes Maÿ.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that August Hillenbach came from the German region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hillenbach family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 76).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 676-677.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 355.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5376.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of August Hillenbach and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.