Heinrich Kunderneun [sic], a farmer, his wife Apollonia, and daughter Maria (age 4) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Heinrich Guntherom [sic], a farmer, his wife Appolonia, and daughter Maria Sophia (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 48. They had arrived in Keller on 12 May 1767.
Following the destruction of Keller in 1774, this family was resettled in Neu-Kolonie.
An entry dated 17 November 1777 from the minutes of the Office of Immigrant Oversight [Kontora] records that Johannes Aqua, Vorsteher [mayor] of Neu-Kolonie, approved the move of colonist Heinrich Gundrum from Neu-Kolonie to Seelmann.
Heinrich Gundrum is recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm55.
His death in 1805 is recorded on the 1811 census of Seelmann in Household No. 55.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Kunderneun [sic] came from the Gemran region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Guntherom [sic] came from the German village of Allendorf in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Seelmann Census (Household No. 55).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 91.
- 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): Sm55.
- Minutes of the Office of Immigrant Oversight [the Kontora]. 17 November 1777.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 351.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #394.
Brent Mai