Haas (Hildmann)
Caspar Haas & Catharina Neffl [sic] were married on 10 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
Kaspar Haas, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hildmann on 14 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Haas came from the German region of Mainz while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
- 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): Hd32.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #396.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 98.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #583.
Brent Mai