Heilbrun

Spelling Variations: 
Heilbrun
Гейльбрунъ
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Adam Eilbrant [sic], a farmer from Darmstadt, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Severnyi Orel (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Pyotr Malenkov.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.

The widow and children of Georg Adam Heilbrun are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt29.

Georg Heilbrun from Dietel is recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg in Household No. 54.

The 1767 census records that Adam Heilbrun came from the German region of Darmstadt.

Sources: 

- 1857 Rosenberg Census (Household No. 54).
- 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): Dt29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 292.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2797.

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Brent Mai

Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Adam Heilbrun and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.

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