Anna Margaretha Haas

1775 -

• Name	Anna Margaretha Haas
  Birth	1775  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Arrival	1796	Kukkus, Samara, Russia   [4, 5]
  Name	Anna Margareta Hesse  [1]
  Residence	1798	Kukkus, Samara, Russia   [1]
  	HH20
  Residence	1798	Kukkus, Samara, Russia   [1]
  	HH20
  Residence	1798	Kukkus, Samara, Russia   [2]
  	Household 20
  Person ID	I22483	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family	Johann Georg Heinrich,   b. 31 Jan 1729, Werdorf, Braunfels, Hesse, Germany d. Between 1796 and 1798 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1796	Kukkus, Samara, Russia   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F1042	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Arrival - 1796 - Kukkus, Samara, Russia Marriage - 1796 - Kukkus, Samara, Russia Residence - HH20 - 1798 - Kukkus, Samara, Russia Residence - HH20 - 1798 - Kukkus, Samara, Russia Residence - Household 20 - 1798 - Kukkus, Samara, Russia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  1798 Census notes she is from Kutter Correspondence from Bob Heinrich: Data Sources: The birthdate and pre 1766 information is provided by Eric Hahn, Schulstrasso 6, 35614 Asslar-Berghausen. Telephone number 0 64 43 /12 58. It was taken from the Werdorf-Berghausen Church Parish records. Mr. Hahn reports that Henrichs and Henrich is the same name. In his correspondence he uses Henrichs with the explanation that it was the common spelling prior to 1800. After 1800, and now, Heinrich is the common spelling. The Russian information was provided by Dr. Igor Pleve, History Professor at Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia. Death and burial locations are assumed by Bob Heinrich. Dr. Pleve reports that Johann George Heinrich was of the Reformed Faith, a weaver of floor carpets from Braunfels County, the Feridorf (Fridorf) place. He arrived in Oranienbaum Russia on August 8, 1766 and the Kukkus Colony (Woljskoje) on June 26, 1767. The book titled "The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862", published by German author Karl Stumpp, with the cooperation of The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia references, on page 134, a Johann George Henrich (sic) from Werdorf/Wetzlar-Hesse. It also references on the same line a George Konrad Henrich (sic) also from Werdorf/Wetzlar-Hesse. On the line above it references a Johannes Henrich (sic) from Allendorf/Wetzlar-Hesse. Dr. Stumpp reports the persons in this group moved from the Hesse and Upper Rhine regions of Germany to the Volga in the 1763-1769 period. The Kukkus 1798 Census reports that a Johannes (sic) and wife Anna Margareta Hess from Popovka (Kutter) were living in Kukkus. It reports Johanns George's age to be 61 which does not agree with the Dr. Pleve reported 1728 and Mr. Hahn's 1729 birth years. Robert J. Heinrich, the person writing this account, concludes that Mr. Hahn's access to the Werdorf church records is the superior source and, therefore, 1729 is the accepted birth year. In the house was daughter, Anna Elizabeth, age 2, and childern from his deceased wife. They were: Philip Wilhelm, age 23, and wife Margareta Wetlaifer (?) (sic), age 23, and daughters Maria Elisabeth age 4, Maria Barbara age 3 and Katarina Maargareta age 1; Johann George age 21 and Wilhelm Anton age 17. The census also reports that during the 1797 harvest Johannes Heinrich had 9 horses, 12 cows, 24 sheep, 10 swine, 5 geese, 20 chickens, two 1/4 chetverts and 4 chetveriks of rye (1 chetvert = about 210 liters and 1 Chetverik = about 26 liters), and 5 chetveriks of wheat. A book titled "Kukkus," published by the American Historical Society of Germans From Russia, reports the following: The Johann George Heinrich family was one of the Kukkus founding families. The family is reported to be from Werdorf, a German village within the Solms-Braunfels principality. Werdorf is about 50.4 degrees North and about 8.4 Degrees East of the Prime Meridian. It is about 35 miles North of the present city of Frankfurt am Main and north of Wetzlar and nearly adjacent north of Asslar. Werdorf is not identified on most road maps. The Kukkus book also references both Johann George Heinrich and a George K. Heinrich to be from the country of Greifenstein. A 1763 map shows a village by the name of Greifenstein located a few miles east of Werdorf. It is not clear if the reference to Greifenstein indicates a government center or a place of residence. George K. (Konrad) Heinrich is listed as a resident of Werdorf in 1766 and a resident of Kukkus in 1767. He is not listed in the 1798 Kukkus census. Did he leave Kukkus village or was he deceased? The Solms-Braunfels archives are reported to contain references to Johann George and George K. Heinrichs. A document, dated April 8, 1766 requires several persons, from the country of Greifenstein, who are planning to leave the country for Russia, to answer questions regarding their intentions to leave Germany. A sample of the questions and answers follow: To which area (of Russia) will you go? Johann George Heinrich - "The commissor told them - this side of the Volga"; George Konrad Heinrich - "This side of the Volga was promised to them". Where upon did they build their hope for a better luck? (sic); Johann George Heinrich - "On the promise published by the Empress of Russia"; George Konrad Heinrich - "On the promise of Her Majesty the Empress". In late May 1998 Robert and Norine Heinrich visited Werdorf. We attended the May 31 Reformed Church Sunday service and obtained copies of the Heinrich family church records. The Heinrich ancestors were members of the congregation. The Church building is on the original Church site. We toured the adjacent town museum, countryside and nearby castle of the ruler at the time of our ancestors. The Count's family continues to live in the castle and own the vast forest lands in the area. The old public records, which are now private records, are in the castle. The records are available to the public for a fee. Other small towns are nearby. It is a prosperous and picturesque area. Local genealogist, Erich Hahn, did not know of any Heinrichs living in the area. Mr. Hahn's son, a University German History Professor reported that poverty and the devastation of international, national and local wars combined with poverty and oppression by local rulers caused commoners and the unlanded to move to Russia. Two years after the ancestors moved to Russia there was a general famine in the area resulting in hundreds of deaths. Mr. Hahn's son also reported that the religion of the area changed from Lutheran to Reformed within less than one hundred years. The passage to Russia began in 1766. Emigrants were assembled and transported to Lubeck, Germany where they waited for ships to take them to Russia. They departed Germany from the Baltic Sea city of Travemunde. Robert and Norine Heinrich visited Lubeck and Travemunde in late May 1998. Many of the buildings that existed in Lubeck remain. It continues to be a Baltic Sea port. Travemunde is the point where the port of Lubeck enters the Baltic Sea. It is a summer seaside resort town. Two man made structures remain from the time of our ancestors - a light house and a navigation marker pad on a curve in the river. It required between 10 and 12 days for the ships to reach the Russian fortress of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland. From Kronstadt the immigrants were moved to Oranienbaum. A few weeks later they began the overland trek to Petrovsk by way of Novgorod, Moskow and Penza. It was in Petrovsk that the Johann George Heinrich family spent their first Russian winter. In the spring of 1767 they continued on to Saratov, a Russian military garrison established for the purpose of protecting the Russian frontier against Asian nomads. The settlers departed Saratov in a train of over 100 wagons. They crossed the Volga River and began to drop off settlers at the various town sites. On June 27, 1767, 181 settlers (100 males and 81 females) were dropped off at Kukkus. The German recruiting agent, representing the Russian government, named the new village Neu-Braband. The first official village name was Wolskaja (Wolskaje). The villagers changed the name to Kukkus. The new name reflected the village's administrator or mayor, Abraham Kukkus. By 1772 the Wolskoja name was no longer in common use. Since 1941, Kukkus has been known by its new Russian name Priwolskoje. Bob and Norine Heinrich visited Kukkus in June of 1993. Kukkus is on a hill over looking the Volga River. Many late 1800's vintage houses remain. A few post World II houses are on the north end of town. Two communal farms are the only visable employers. The land is being farmed on a large mechanized scale. Rye was waist high and fields were being prepared for planting. Sprinkler irrigation was being applied. Mr. Andres Baum, his son and family lived in Kukkus at the time of our visit. Three decendants of Kukkus and the Werdorf area of Germany visited with Mr.Baum. They were Bob Heinrich, Marie Becker and Elma Maser Fredder. He and his now deceased wife (from the Maser family) and their som had returned from Siberia when Mr. Baum retired. Mr. Baum and his wife had been deported to Siberia at the beginning of World War II.Mr. Baum took us on a tour of the town. He showed us where the church had been, where he went to school, where he worked as a young man and pointed out our family homes. I was given a tour of the Heinrich house. The occupant, a widower, appoligized, through an interpreter, for its condition. He said his wife had passed away three years ago and he was not a good house keeper. Mr. Baum, with the help of two village women, served us a chicken noodle soup lunch with all of the trimmings. We toasted, with vodka, our friendship, each other, our families past and present, and our hope to meet again in this or another world. The Kukkus of our ancestors must have been a pretty village. They carved it out of the wilderness and made it beautiful. The decendents of the builders are no longer there to care for it. The cemetery is in ruins and neglected. The church sancatuary was destroyed years ago. The church social hall is now a town meeting hall. The nearby Cow Island is covered with water resulting from a down-stream Volga river dam. Only the top of a tree marks its location. The higher water level is washing the river bank resulting in houses falling into the river. The old houses seemed to say to me - we are glad you are here; we are glad someone remembered those that made us once beautiful and happy homes. Mr. Baum, his son and family moved to Germany is 1996.

  
  

• Sources

  [S80] Brent Alan Mai, 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga-Volume 1 & 2, (Name: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR); Location: Lincoln, Nebraska; Date: 1999;), Kukkus, Russia 1798 Census P641-647 as of 2 August 1798. [S411] 1798 Census Kukkus, Russia, 1798 Kukkus, Russia, Census. [S407] Dr. Igor Pleve, Professor University of Saratov, Surname Chart-Heinrich, Kukkus, Russia, (Name: Dr. Igor Pleve; Location: Saratov, Russia;), Descendants of Johann Georg Heinrich. A genealogy chart prepared by Dr. Igor Pleve. [S80] Brent Alan Mai, 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga-Volume 1 & 2, (Name: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR); Location: Lincoln, Nebraska; Date: 1999;), Kutter, Russia Movement Register from 1798 Census. [S408] Movement Register-1798 Census Kutter, Russia.