Hans Adam Heilmann from Grebendorff in the area of Würzburg & Margaretha Stet from Westheim in the district of Trümberg near Würzburg were married on 12 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann Adam Heilmann, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
Johann Adam Heilmann, his wife Anna Maria [sic], and daughter Anna Maria (age 2¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Anna Maria died en route.
Adam Heilmann, his wife Maria Margaretha, and their son Sebastian (¾-years old) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 82. They had settled there on 22 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Adam Heilmann came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Adam Heilmann came from the German village of Gemünden [?] in the Würzburg region.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #631.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 397.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5713.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2298-2300.
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