Heinrich Oper, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Beauregard on 17 August 1767 and are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 71 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Cäsarsfeld in 1768. Recorded with them is orphan August Windemann. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Oper and Windemann families.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Oper came from the German village of Lykershausen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 884-885.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 211.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7225.
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