Albert Heckenbinder, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and children (Johann, age 14; Margaretha, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Albert Hekenbinder, his wife Magdalena, and children (Johan, age 14; Margretha, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Magdalena died in route.
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 Oranienbaum passenger list records that Albert Heckenbinder came from the German region of Lothringen. 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.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 747.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 225.
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