Johann Christian Heinrich Grune from Sollnitz married Agnessa Catharina Stock from Großkühnau on 11 October 1746 in Sollnitz (near Dessau). At the time of immigration, the family was living in nearby Kleutsch.
Heinrich Gruhne, a farmer, his wife Agness, and children (Johann, age 20; Maria, age 16½; Sophia, age 14; Christoph age 11; Johanna, age 5¼; Elisabeth, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Heinrich Gruhne, his wife Agnese, and children (Joh. Willhelm, age 20; Doro. Sophia, age 16; Christoph, age 10; Cathar. Elisab., age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widow Agnessa Katharina Gruhne and the surviving children (Wilhelm, age 20; Christoph, age 11; Katharina, age 1; Dorothea, age 1-week) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 8. They had settled there on 7 June 1767.
Wilhelm Gruhne and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn02.
The families of Christoph Gruhne and his brothers Christoph Wilhelm and Heinrich from Kaneau are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl14.
The 1850 census of Kaneau records in Household No. 24 that Christian Wilhelm Grune and his family moved to Rosental. The families of Christian Grune and Christoph Wilhelm Grune from Kaneau are recorded on the 1850 census of Rosental in Households No. 13 & 14.
The 1850 census of Kaneau records in Household No. 92 that Christian Grune and his family moved to Neu-Boisroux.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Gruhne came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that widow Agnessa Katharina Grün [sic] came from the German village of Sollnitz.
- 1834 Kaneau Census (Households No. 14, 59).
- 1850 Kaneau Census (Households No. 22, 92).
- 1850 Rosental Census (Households No. 13, 14).
- 1857 Kaneau Census (Household No. 24).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 186.
- 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): Kn02, Pl14.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): 1076.
- Parish register of Sollnitz.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 245.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1236.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0475-0480.
Karl Becker
Brent Mai
Entry from the Anhalt-Dessau register. "Kleutsch. Heinrich Grune with wife and six children, the oldest of whom is 12 years old. He guards the ducks (hütete den Entenfang) and lives on charity (Schwarzen Stamm)."
Source: Karl Becker.