Heinrich Hans, his wife Anna, and children (Valentin,age 16; Katharina, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm along with their maid Maria Ferstein/Fester/Feuerstein.
Heinrich Gans [sic], his wife Anna, and children (Valentin, age 16; Catharina, age 1½ [perhaps 7½]) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that all of them died in route. Their maid is also traveling with them and she did not die.
[They arrived in Oranienbaum with Sebastian Hans recorded on the next line. Sebastian is also recorded on the transport list from St. Petersburg to Saratov, but not in close proximity to Heinrich and his family. It is not known in which colony Sebastian Hans settled.]
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hans family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7110, #7111.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3956, #4594-4597.
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