Johann Heinrich Franck, son of Adam Franck, was born about 1735 in Wirtheim, northeast of Gelnhausen. He married in Gelnhausen on 26 August 1756 to Anna Margaretha Stock, daughter of Martin Stock. They have the following children: (1) Johann Heinrich, born in Gelnhausen 26 July 1756; (2) Maria; and (3) Elisabeth, born about 1762.
They immigrated to Russia and arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
The parents and daughter Elisabeth made it to the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 15 June 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
Heinrich Frank is recorded as a widower on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf58.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Frank came from the German village of Orb [probably Bad Orb, about 4 kilometers east of Wirtheim].
- Frey, Julius. "Auswanderung aus den Kreisen Gelnhausen und Büdingen im Jahre 1766." Geschichtsblätter für Stadt und Kreis Glenhausen. Herausgeber: Geschichtsverein Gelnhausen, 1965.
- 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): Pf58.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 379.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2623.
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