Just Heck, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Jost Heck and his [new] wife Isabella [née Jordan] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. [See Jordan Family.]
Just Heck, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 50 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
Widow Heck and their son Johann Karl Heck are recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb28.
The death of Karl Heck in 1827 is recorded on the 1834 census of Biberstein in Household No. 89.
The 1767 census records that Just Heck came from the German village of Kerebach [?].
- 1834 Biberstein Census (Household No. 89).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 869.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bb28.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 206.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7070.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3885-3886.
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