Widow Katharina Hergenröder and her children (Ludwig, age 19; Anna, age 16; Barbara, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Son Ludwig settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.
Ludwig Hergenröder, his wife Anna Magdalena, and daughters (Anna Katharina, age 6; Maria Christina, age 2½) are recorded on the 1775 census of Huck in Household No. 14 along with orphans [actually step-children] [surname Huck] (Johann August, age 16½; Ernestina, age 14½; Johann Ernst, age 11½).
Ludwig Hergenröder and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk02.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Ludwig Hergenröder came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Huck Census (Household No. 14).
- 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): Hk02.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 153.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3120.
Brent Mai
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