Nikolaus Heim, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 7; Jakob, age 4½; Johann, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
Nikolaus Heim, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 9; Jakob, age 8; Wilhelm, age 1) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 68. They had settled in Seelmann on 16 August 1767.
Jakob Heim and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm06.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Heim came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Manderscheid in the region of Trier.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heim family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 398.
- 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): Sm06.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 162.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3062.
Brent Mai