Georg Balthasar Heldt, his wife Katharina, and daughter Maria (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus 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.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 352.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6896.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4465-4468.
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