Georg Balthasar Heldt, his wife Katharina, and daughter Maria (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
George [sic] Balthasar Heldt, his wife Catharina, and daughters (Maria, age 2¼; Anna Elisabeth, newborn) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Georg Balzer Held, a miller (Müller), his wife Katharina, and daughter Johanna (age 1) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies in Household No. 14.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Georg Balzer Held came from the German village of Herbern.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Held family among the Volga German colonies.
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