Johann Heinrich Fink, son of Caspar Fink of Mittelsinn, married on 2 February 1740 in Burgsinn to Anna Jacobina Goth, daughter of Niclaus Goth. She had been born 18 January 1720.
The births of 3 children are recorded in the parish register of Burgsinn: (1) Jürg Jacob, born 22 August 1741; (2) Anna Sophia, born 7 February 1743; and (3) Jürg Friedrich, born 16 October 1744.
The marriage of Jürg Jacob Fink to Magdalena Vogt is recorded there on 7 April 1766.
Jakob Fink, a farmer, and his wife Magdalena arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard the pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov along with his sister Sophia and brother Friedrich.
Jakob Fink, a farmer, and his wife Magdalena are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs030.
Friedrich Fink, a farmer, is recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs094.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Fink family came from the German region of Dienheim.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 319-320.
- 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): Hs030, Hs094, Hs095.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2352, #2353, #2363.
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