August Hillenbach, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Daniel, age 20; Dorothea, age 17; Elisabeth, age 14; Karl, age 11; Karolina, age 7; Henrietta, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Orphan Karolina Dorothea Hillenbach (age 11) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 15 along with the Jakob Dietrich family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Dietrich and Hillenbach families.
She is assumed to have settled in the colony of Kind which is where the Dietrich family settled.
Karolina Hillenbach from Orlovskaya is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt as the widow of August Weltz and current wife of Johannes Maÿ.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that August Hillenbach came from the German region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hillenbach family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 355.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5376.
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