Heinrich Holdorf, a farmer, his wife Martha, and son Max (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Heinrich Holldorff [sic] and his wife Martha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11 along with his new wife Sophia and her children Gottfried & Wilhelmina Zöllner.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Holdorf came from the German village of Seebach in the Holstein 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 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 314.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4814.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4945-4946.
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