Christian Henning [sic], a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Christian Heinrich, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 31.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Henning [sic] came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Christian Heinrich came from the German village of Güstrow in the Mecklenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Heinrich family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 82.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 305.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #309.
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