An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:
Caspar Hiller, a farmer (Bauersmann), son of Hanns Simon Hiller, a day laborer (Taglöhner) in Michelbach near Heilbronn, Lutheran, and Johanna Lerch, daughter of the deceased Georg Lerch, a farmer (Bauer) in Glattau in German Bohemia, Catholic, were married on 7 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.
Kaspar Heller [sic], a farmer, his wife [Joh]Anna Maria, and son Johann (age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Caspar hiller, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 1) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Johann died en route.
Kaspar Hiller, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 49 along with orphan Kaspar Metzinger (age 9). The 1767 records that Kaspar Metzinger was taken into the household of Kaspar Hiller, but does not record a relationship between the Metzger and Hiller families. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 19 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Hiller came from the German region of Ansbach. The 1767 census records that Kaspar Hiller came from the German village of Michelbach bei Heilbronn in the Ansbach region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hiller family among the Volga German colonies.
- Funk, Wilhelm. "Deutsche a Is russische Colonisten: ausgezogen aus dem Wöhrder Traubuch 1766/67." Blätter für fränkische Familienkunde, 1:3 (1926): 101-107.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 729.
- Mai, Brent Alan. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga, 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #6282-6283.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #800.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 71.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5825.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6256-6258.
Brent Mai
Anonymous2
Entry from the 1767 census of Leitsinger recording the household of Kaspar Hiller.
Source: Anonymous2.