Heinrich Walter, a stocking weaver (Strumpfwürker), his wife Barbara, son Gottfried (age 9), and sister-in-law Anna [surname not recorded] (age 40) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Henrich Walter, his wife Barbara, and son Gottfried (age 10) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Walter, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Barbara, and son Gottfried (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 86. They had arrived in Frank on 1 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Walter came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Walter came from the German village of Hasselborn in the region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Walter family among the Volga German colonies.
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