There are two Kildau families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs additional research.
(1) Johann Georg & Anna Maria Kildau had six children, each baptized in the Evangelical Church of Einselthum, 20 kilometers west of Worms: (1) Heinrich, on 12 January 1749; (2) Johann Adam, on 12 September 1751; (3) Conrad, on 24 February 1754; (4) Johann Jacob, on 30 November 1756; (5) Maria Elisabetha, on 28 February 1759; and (6) Johann Casimir, on 30 July 1761.
Georg Kildau, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 17; Konrad, age 15¼; Maria, age 9; Johannes, age 2¼) arrived in Oranienbaum.
The family arrived in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
By the time of the 1798 Kautz census, Johann Georg is living in Household No. Kz30. In 1793, son Heinrich moved to Dietel where he and his descendants are recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Dt56. Son Johann Adam moved to Hussenbach where he is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Hs001.
(2) Heinrich Kildau, a single farmer, arrived in Oranienbaum.
Heinrich Kildau is recorded on the 1767 census of Kautz in Household No. 10.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both of these Kildau families came from the German region of Pfalz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 367.
- 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): Dt56, Dt57, Hs001, Kz30, Mv1257.
- Parish register of Einselthum (LDS Film No. 193834).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 335.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2777, #2778.
Corina Hirt
Brent Mai