Friedrich Kirchenhein, a cobbler, his wife Agnes, and children (Johann, age 18; Maria Katharina, age 8; Louisa, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
Fridrich Kirchenheim [sic], his wife Agneta, and children (Johannes, age 17¾; Maria Catrina, age 8; Erwisa Elisabeth, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the mother Agneta died en route.
Daughter Maria Katharina Kirchenhein (age 9) is recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No 201 along with the Johannes Hohnstein family. They had settled in Norka on 2 September 1767. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Kirchenhein and Hohnstein families.
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): 284.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5737.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2301-2305.
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