There are two Adam Helwig families that settled in the colony of Schönchen in 1768. The widow and son of one of them is recorded on the 1798 census of Mariental in Household No. Mt03.
Johann Helwig, a miller (Müller), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Adam Helwig, a miller (Müller), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767.
They are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 52 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Schönchen in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Helwig came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Adam Helwig came from the German village of Bibra.
- 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): Mt03, Mv0273.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 152.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4303.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4030-4032.
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