Heinrich Heil, a single blacksmith (Schmied), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Henrich Heil is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Heil (age 20), a single blacksmith (Schmied), is recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 169 along with a note that he is living with mayor (Vorsteher) Johann Keiter. Heinrich Heil had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 169.
The widow and daughter of Kaspar [sic] Heil are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr116 along with a note that their whereabouts are unknown. Further research is needed to determine whether Kaspar and Heinrich are the same person.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Heil came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that he came from the village of Laubuseschbach in the region of Runkel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heil 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): 279.
- 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): Wr116.
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Brent Mai