Heinrich Hans, his wife Anna, and children (Valentin,age 16; Katharina, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck 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.
- 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): 873.
- 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.
Brent Mai