The parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Oberhöchstadt records on 17 January 1736 the marriage of Heinrich Hiltmann, son of the deceased Peter Hiltmann, to Anna Ursula Konradi, daughter of the deceased Peter Konradi.
The parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Oberhöchstadt records the baptisms of the following children born to Heinrich Hiltmann & Anna Ursula Konradi: (1) Ludwig, born 23 June 1742; (2) Konrad, born 19 September 1743; (3) Johannes, born 24 October 1744; (4) Anna Maria, born 21 August 1746; (5) Johannes Konrad, baptized 13 December 1747; (6) Anna Martha, born 6 April 1749; and (7) Heinrich, born 9 February 1754.
Heinrich Hiltmann died 11 September 1767.
Ludwig Hiltmann, a single farmer, and his brother Konrad (age 18½) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard the pink named Лапоминк (Lapomink) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Ludwig settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 12 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 7.
The widow Anna Maria Hiltmann is recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps12. Her daughter Anna Margaretha Jungblut née Hiltmann and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps13.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Hiltmann came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Ludwig Hiltmann came from the German village of Oberhöchstadt in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hiltmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 94.
- 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): Ps12, Ps13.
- Parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Oberhöchstadt.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 414.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #424.
Brent Mai
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Entry in the parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Oberhöchstadt recording the marriage of Heinrich Hiltmann to Anna Ursula Konradi on 17 January 1736.
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Entry in the parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Oberhöchstadt recording the birth of Ludwig Hiltmann on 23 June 1742.
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Entry from the parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Oberhöchstadt recording the baptism of Johannes Konrad on 13 December 1747.
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