Heinrich Heidelbach, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Johann Heinrich Heidelbach (age 58) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt016.
Heinrich Heidelbach is recorded on the 1834 census of Bettinger in Household No. 119 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Walter.
The death of Heinrich Heidelbach in 1830 is recorded on the 1834 census of Walter in Household No. 236.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Heidelbach came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heidelbach family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Bettinger Census (Household No. 119).
- 1834 Walter Census (Household No. 236).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 98.
- 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): Wt016.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 465.
Brent Mai
