Michael Heckel [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Maria (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Michel Hesse, his wife Margaretha, and newborn daughter Ursula are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Michael Hesse, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Ursula (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 70. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Heckel [sic] came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Michael Hesse came from the German village of Ichenhausen in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 229.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6189.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7736-7738.
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