Johann Helwig, a cobbler, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 20; Anna, age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
Johann Helwig, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna Dorothea, and children (Johann Just, age 20; Anna Elisabeth, age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 51. They had arrived in Dinkel on 27 July 1767.
Johann Just Helwig and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn42.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Helwig came from the German region of Friedberg while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Staden in the Wettrau region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 173.
- 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): Dn42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 310.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1139.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Helwig and his family.
Source: Brent Mai