Johann Heinrich Hopp, a carpenter (Zimmermann), his wife Margaretha, children (Katharina, age 4; Johann, age ¾), and brother Adam (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 26 & 28.
Johann Adam Hopp from Kraft is recorded on the 1834 census of Franzosen in Household No. 114.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Hopp came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that the Hopp family came from the German village of Oberhausen in the Hessen region.
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Household No. 114).
- 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): 625.
- 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): Kf13, Kf14, Kf23.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 400.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5015.
Brent Mai