VGI Updates
Jordan (Biberstein)
Adolph Jordan, his wife Dorothea, and children (Isabella, age 20; Karolina, age 18; Maria, age 12; Christoph, age 9; Katharina, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
Adolph Jordan, his wife Dorothea, and children (Carolina, age 18; Maria, age 12; Christoph, age 9; Catharina, age 3) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that youngest daughter Catharina died en route.
Heider*
Orphan Anna Katharina Heider (age 12) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 3 along with the Peter Schönebeck family and a note that she relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Heider and Schönebeck families.
The 1767 census does not record from where Anna Katharina Heider came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Heck (Biberstein)
Just Heck, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
Jost Heck and his [new] wife Isabella [née Jordan] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. [See Jordan Family.]
Just Heck, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 50 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
Häsen, Kr. Oberhavel, Brandenburg
Today, Häsen is administratively part of the muncipality of Löwenberger Land.
Hassenkampf
Heinrich Hassenkampf, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 41.
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb14.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Hassenkampf came from the German village of Häsen.
Göbel (Biberstein)*
Johann Göbel and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
Johann Gebel and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna died en route.
Mühlhausen, Kr. Unstrut-Hainich, Thüringen
Before 1815, Mühlhausen was basically an independent town under the protectorate of various entities located in Prussia. After 1815, Mühlhausen was part of the newly created Prussian Province of Saxony. Today, it is located in the German State of Thüringen.
Litke (Jost)*
Johann Lüdeck, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Nord Stern under the command of Skipper Detlev Belling.
Johann Lütje [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Litke, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and stepdaughters [surname not recorded] (Margaretha, age 17; Anna Maria, age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 55. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
Koch (Jost)
Heinrich Koch & Maria Sabina Prösin [Bröse] were married on 11 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Heinrich Koch, a stonemason, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Gottlieb [Bröse], age 7; Gottfried [Bröse?], age 4½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Der Engel Rafael under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.