Heinrich Fine [sic], a single cooper (Fassbinder), arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 172.
Heinrich Heine (age 46), a cooper (Böttcher), his wife Kunigunda née Wendel (age 22), and son (Jakob, age 2½) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 2 along with notes about the births of two daughters (Maria Sophia, born 20 May 1776; Johanna Judith, born 10 January 1778).
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that he came from the German village of Halberstadt in the Brandenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 2).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 312.
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