Chevalier
Heinrich Chevalier, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the Skipper Paul Adam Drath.
Heinrich Schwalje, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johanna, age 17¼; Johann, age 15; Johann [again], age 13; Bernhard, age 3, died en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
Johann Chevalier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn13.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Chevalier came from the village of Laplen (?) near Dofen (?) in France. [This location could refer to the village of La Plaine which was located in the historical French Province of Dauphiné (today, it is in Switzerland). Further research is needed to determine whether or not this is the correct location of this family.]
- 1834 Brabander Census (Households No. 18, 28, 63, 68, 69, 71, 110, 111, 112, 113, 145).
- 1850 Brabander Census (Households No. 4, 6, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31, 35, 56, 73, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 100, 127, 128, 129, 130, 142, 159).
- 1857 Brabander Census (Households No. 5, 7, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 41, 42, 45, 60, 86, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102, 120, 146, 147, 148, 149, 160, 170, 174).
- 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): Bn13.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 223.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5949.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6640-6645.
Brent Mai