Henning (Beideck)*

Peter Henning, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Peter Henning and his wife Cath. Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Widower Peter Henning, a farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 121. He had settled in Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767.

This may be the same Peter Henning that is recorded as a widower moving from Beideck to Orlovskaya in 1792.

Peter Henning from Beideck his wife and stepchildren are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or26.

There is also a Peter Henning recorded as moving from Schaffhausen to Orlovskaya in 1796.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Peter Henning came from the German region of Hamburg.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Peter Henning among the Volga German colonies.