Philipp Heil, a farmer, his wife Maria Ursula, and daughters (Maria Klara, age 8¾; Elisabeth, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Detlov Merberg along with another Philipp Heil (presumed to be a son).
Philipp Heil (age 23), a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Kunigunde [Dinger] (age 24), and her sister Margaretha [Dinger] (age 17½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 97. [See Dinger Family.]
Philipp Heil and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf05.
Daughter Klara is recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 61 along with the Andreas Spahn family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Heil and Spahn families.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Philipp Heil came from the German region of Fulda.
There do not appear to be any surviving male descendants of this Heil family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 624, 635.
- 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): Pf05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 392, 400.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5088, #5091, #5092.
Brent Mai