Heinrich Suppes was born 5 November 1681 in Unter-Seibertenrod and died there 23 November 1768.
He married on 8 November 1707 in Unter-Seibertenrod to Veronica Rachel Rühl. She had been born in Unter-Seibertenrod on 21 May 1686 and died there on 24 June 1773.
The births of the following children born to Heinrich Suppes & Veronica Rachel Rühl are recorded in the parish register of Unter-Seibertenrod: (1) Johann Georg, born 12 September 1708, died 16 November 1752; (2) Johann Caspar, born 6 January 1712, died in October 1721; (3) Johann Martin, born 15 February 1715; (4) Heinrich, born 4 February 1718; (5) Andreas, born 10 March 1721, died 18 December 1793 [in Unter-Seibertenrod]; (6) Anna Elisabetha, born 14 February 1724, died 25 December 1799 [in Unter-Seibertenrod]; and (7) Johannes, born 2 June 1732.
Johan Martin Suppus [sic], a blacksmith (Schmidt [sic]) from the area of Riedesel, & Gerdrut [sic] Schotten née Rod, a widow from the area of Isenburg, were married on 29 July 1766 in Pastor Bruns's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Martin Suppes, a farmer, his wife Gertruda, and children (Konrad, age 22; Anna, age 15; Johannes, age 12; Heinrich, age 8; Georg, age 5¼; Antonette, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johann Martin Suppes, his wife Gerdruth, and children ([a] Conradt, age 22; [b] Anna Elisabeth, age 16; [c] Johannes, age 12; [d] Johann Henrich, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Johann Henrich died en route.
They settled in the colony of Hussenbach in 1767.
[a] Johann Konrad Suppes and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs111.
Konrad Suppes, his son-in-law Albertus Propp, and grandsons are recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 111.
[b] Anna Elisabeth Spreier née Suppes and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs002.
[c] Johannes Suppes and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs065.
Johannes Suppes and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 65.
The sons of Johannes Suppes and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Hussenbach in Households No. 109 (Georg), 165 (Konrad), 179 (Ludwig), and 255 (Georg - again).
The elder Georg Suppes, son of Johannes Suppes, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 279. They are also recorded on the 1857 census of Langenfeld.
[d] Samuel Suppes, believed to be son of the deceased Johann Heinrich Suppes, is recorded on the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. Kr30.
Samuel Suppes and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kratzke in Household No. 62.
Samuel Suppes is recorded on the 1850 census of Kratzke in Household No. 66 along with a note that he was exiled to Siberia in 1836.
Melchior Suppes, son of Samuel Suppes, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Kratzke in Household No. 65.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Suppes came from the German region of Lauterbach.
- 1811 Hussenbach Census (Households No. 65, 111).
- 1834 Hussenbach Census (Households No. 109, 165, 179, 255).
- 1834 Kratzke Census (Household No. 62).
- 1850 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 266).
- 1850 Kratzke Census (Household No. 66).
- 1857 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 279).
- 1857 Kratzke Census (Household No. 65).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 826.
- 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): Hs002, Hs017, Hs051, Hs065, Hs111.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #269.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): 7290-7294.
- Parish records of Unter-Seibertenrod.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6615.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8404-8409.
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