Honburt / Humbert*
Johannes Humbert [sic], a clothmaker (Tuchmacher) from Grünberg, & Catharina Reichart née Scheitz from the county of Isenburg were married The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johannes Honburt, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Honburt came from the German village of Grünberg in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): #229.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 419.
Brent Mai