Heinrich Conrad Lichtenwald, son of Johann Heinrich Lichtenwald & Marie Marguerite L'oiseau, was baptized on 8 September 1740 in Friedrichstal.
He immigrated with his parents and siblings to Denmark (today part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany) where he married on 12 August 1762 to Margaretha Barbara Altergott, daughter of Georg Friedrich Altergott & Elisabeth Gorgus. [See Altergott Family.]
Heinrich Lichtenwalter [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Johann (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Heinrich Lichtenwalter [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Lichtenwald (age 28), a farmer, his wife Margaretha Barbara (age 25), and son Christian Friedrich (age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 92. They had arrived in Dönhof on 18 June 1767.
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh024.
Martin Lichtenwald from Dönhof and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Franzosen in Household No. 73.
Christian Lichtenwald from Dönhof and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Franzosen in Household No. 93.
Heinrich Conrad was the only Lichtenwald to immigrate to Russia. The remainder of the Lichtenwald family left Schleswig-Holstein in 1763 and returned to Friedrichstal in Germany.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Lichtenwalder [sic] came from the German region of Rostock.
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Households No. 73, 93).
- Eichhorn, Alexander. The immigration of German colonists to Denmark and their subsequent emigration to Russia in the years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Steinmeier, 2012): 503.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 123.
- 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): Dh010, Dh024.
- Parish records of Friedrichstal (LDS Film No. 1238257).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 366.
- Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766 "Reports by Ivan Kulberg" (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 69.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1860.
Hugh Lichtenwald
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Heinrich Lichtenwald recorded on a marker in Schleswig commemorating the Volga Germans who had settled there before immigrating to Russia.
Source: Jorgelina Fischer.