Record of the baptisms of the following children born in Manderbach to Daniel & Anna Elisabetha Hamann [sic] have been located in the parish register of Haiger: (1) Tobias, born 5 April 1751; (2) Johannes, born 27 August 1761; and (3) Anna Christina, born 13 January 1764.
A document dated 17 July 1766 in the archives of Quellen records:
"Demnach Daniel Heymann zu Manderbach, Amts Heyger, Fürstentums Dillenburg, mit seiner Familie von hier ab und nach Rußland zu ziehen willens ist und daher um die erforderliche Dimissoriales geziemend angestanden, man auch demselben hierunter zu deferieren kein Bedenken findet; als werden ihm solche Kraft dieses hierdurch erteilet und er somit der Untertanenpflicht, womit derselbe hiesig gnädigster Landsherrschaft zugetan gewesen, entlassen."
["Accordingly, Daniel Heymann of Manderbach, Heyger District, Principality of Dillenburg, intends to leave this place with his family and move to Russia, and has therefore requested a dismissal letter which is necessary; no objection to granting this request has been found, and he is hereby granted release from the duty of servitude to the sovereign here."]
Daniel Heilmann [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Tobias, age 16; Johann, age 5; Anna, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Daniel Heilmann [sic], his [new] wife Maria Katharina, and stepdaughter Anna [surname not recorded] (age, 1) settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 19 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 59 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Brabander in 1768. [The publication of the 1767 census by Igor Plehve records Daniel Heilmann [sic] as a guilder (Vergolder). The original records him as a "золотарь" which had two meanings depending on the context: waste collector or gold worker.]
Daniel Heimann is recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn11.
In 1798, Johannes Heimann moved from Brabander to Dehler.
Johannes Heimann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl35.
Johannes Heimann from Zug is recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh12.
His mother and sister are likely recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh14.
In 1778, Christina Heimann, daughter of Daniel Heimann, married Georg Peter Bertus in Ober-Monjou. They are recorded on the 1798 census of Mariental in Household No. Mt16.
In 1788, widow Anna Elisabeth Heimann moved from Schaffhausen to Kind.
The 1767 census records that Daniel Heilmann came from the German region of Würzburg.
- "Die Heymannschen Dokumente.“ Wolgadeutsche Monatshefte (1924, 19/20, p. 93-97; 21/22, p. 121-123). [Online]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 856.
- 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): Bn11, Dl35, Mt16, Ps38, Sh12, Sh14, Mv0366, Mv2541, Mv3057.
- Parish register of Haiger.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 73.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6944.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Haiger recording the birth of Tobias Hamann [sic] on 5 April 1751.
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Entry in the parish register of Haiger recording the birth of Johannes Hamann [sic] on 27 August 1761.
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Entry in the parish register of Haiger recording the birth of Anna Christina Hamann [sic] on 13 January 1764.
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