Leon [sic] Hegner, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Leonhard Hegner, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 44.
It is not known in which colony he settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Leon [sic] Hegner came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Leonhard Hegner came from the German village of Hallerndorf.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hegner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 331.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4567.
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