Heinrich Sielwerst, a hatmaker (Hutmacher), and his wife Margaretha Wenlid settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 61.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records in Household No. 82:
Heinrich Sievers (age 31), a hatmaker (Hutmacher)
His wife: Margaretha Vennlied (age 35)
Daughters: Christiana (age 6); Anna Maria (age 2½)
Son: Johann (born 1778)
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Sielwerst came from the Dutch town of Amsterdam in Holland. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Heinrich Sievers was born in Amsterdam and that Margaretha Vennlied was born in the town of Schysteven in Holland.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register (Household No. 82).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 289.
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