Kaspar Christian Hildebrandt, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha Elisabeth, and children (Hannah Maria Elisabeth, age 7; Johann Heinrich Anton, age 5; Hannah Elisabeth age 2) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 22 May 1762.
They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 24 April 1765.
They joined the migration to Russia and settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 14 July 1766.
Kaspar Christian Hildebrandt, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Maria Elisabeth, age 13; Johann Heinrich, age 10; Dorothea Sophia, age 7) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42 along with his sister-in-law widow Anna Margaretha Seidel.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Christian Hildebrandt came from England. The Eichhorns record that Kaspar Christian Hildebrandt was originally from the German region of Hannover, but most recently came from the region of Brandenburg.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-650.
- 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): Rw39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 40.
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