Franz Joseph Helbert, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria and son Johann Philipp (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 70.
Johann Georg Helbert from Köhler is recorded on the 1834 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 142.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Joseph Helbert came from the German region of Mainz while the 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Miltenberg.
- 1834 Pfeifer Census (Household No. 142).
- 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): Kl36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 377.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4169.
Brent Mai