Albertus Heckenbinder, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the Skipper Paul Adam Drath.
Albert Hekenbinder, his wife Magdalena (died en route), and children (Johan, age 14; Margretha, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Albertus Heckenbinder, his new wife Maria, and children (Johannes, age 15; Maria [perhaps stepdaughter], age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 47. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Albertus Heckenbinder came from the German village of Wermen in the Lothringen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 225.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5971.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6688-6691.
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