Widower Valentin Dinger, a farmer, and his daughters (Kunigunda, age 23; Margaretha, age 17½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Philipp Heil (age 23), a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Kunigunde [Dinger] (age 24), and her sister Margaretha [Dinger] (age 17½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 97. [See Heil Family.]
Kunigunda Heil née Dinger and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf05.
Margaretha Schäfer née Dinger and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km046.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Valentin Dinger came from the German region of Würzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dinger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 624, 635.
- 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): Km045, Pf05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 392, 400.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5088.
Brent Mai