Gottfried Helm, his wife Philippina, and daughters (Katharina, age 19; Sophia, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
Gottfried Helm, his wife Philipina, and daughters (Carolina Johanna, age 19; Sophia Magdalena, age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottfried Helm, a farmer, his wife Philippina, and daughters (Carolina, age 19; Magdalena, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Cäsarsfeld in Household No. 1. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Gottfried Helm came from the German village of Stralsund.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Helm family among the Volga German colonies.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6699 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 243.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4096-4099.
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