Spelling Variations
Hänsch (Philippsfeld)*
Hensch (Philippsfeld)*
Hinsch (Philippsfeld)*
Геншъ (Philippsfeld)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Daniel Hinsch [sic], a farmer, his wife Martha, and daughter Elisabeth (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 44. They had settled there on 17 August 1767.
In 1777, Daniel Hänsch moved from Philippsfeld to Katharinenstadt.
The 1767 census records that Daniel Hinsch [sic] came from the German region of Amberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- 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): Mv2301.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 412.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai