Widow Magdalena Fink and her children (Johann David, age 23; Johann Heinrich, age 20; Johann Ludwig, age 16; Anna Maria, age 10½; Anna Katharina, age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 22.
Most of the children are recorded on the 1798 census of Meinhard.
In 1790, Jakob Fink moved from Meinhard to Zürich.
The 1767 census records that Magdalena Fink came from the German village of Legen [?].
Johann Heinrich Fink and Johann David Fink arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will. They could be the two oldest sons of Magdalena Fink recorded above.
- 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): 861.
- 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): Mn12, Mn29, Mn30, Zr09, Zr14, Mv1672.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 166.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6990, #6991.
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