Lorenz Höffner [sic], his wife Maria, and daughter Maria (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Lorentz Hoepftner, his wife Maria, and daughters (Maria, age 2¼; Maria Magdalena, age ¾) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both daughters died en route.
Lorenz Höppner, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.
In 1786, Lorenz Heppner and his family moved from Ober-Monjou to Schönchen.
Lorenz Höppner from Ober-Monjou and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn22.
The death of Andreas Höppner from Schönchen in 1827 is recorded on the 1834 census of Wittmann in Household No. 106. His son Ferdinand (age 12) is also recorded there.
The 1767 census records that Lorenz Höppner came from the German village of Windheim [?].
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 849.
- 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): Sn22, Mv2073.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 298.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6889.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4811-4814.
Brent Mai