Heil (Pfeifer-2)*
Philipp Heil, a farmer, his wife Maria Ursula, and daughters (Maria Klara, age 9; 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.
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.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records 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.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 392.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5091.
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