Dienst*
Andreas Dienst from Florßheim on the Mayn & Anna Margaretha Hilsch from Neuhoff were married on 9 April 1766 in the City Lutheran Church in Friedberg.
Andreas Dienst, his wife Anna, and [step-?]daughters (Wilhelmina, age 18; Maria, age 13; Katharina, age 10; Elisabeth, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the hooker Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Andreas Dienst, his wife Anna Margaretha, children (Johann Michael, age ¼; Elisabeth, age ¼), and stepdaughter Maria Christina [surname not recorded - believed to be Hilsch] are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 86 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Warenburg in 1768. They had arrived in Preuss on 15 July 1767.
Maria Barbara [sic] Hilsch from Paulskaya is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka006.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Dienst is a farmer while the 1767 census records that he is a baker (Bäcker).
Maria
The 1767 census records that Andreas Dienst came from the German village of Flörsheim in the Kurmainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Ka006.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #306.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 428.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #861.
Brent Mai