Hall

Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Zwingenberg, Zwingenberg, Hessen, Germany
Description

Konrad Hall was born on 22 August 1730 in Zwingenberg, south of Darmstadt. 

He immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) where he married Eva Katharina Heckmann in the colony of Altona on 27 April 1760. She had been born on 10 January 1728 in Schollbrunn.  Konrad and Eva Katharina had one child while in the Danish colonies: Anna Catharina, baptized 24 May 1761 in Friderichsmose, Karup Parish, Viborg AMT. 

In 1763, they immigrated to Russia, settling in the colony of Anton on 6 October 1764. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37.

Sources

- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga .
- Danish parish record extractions by Wayne Bonner and Mike Meisinger. 
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Steinmeier, 2012): p. 429 
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 64.

Researchers
Gerhard Lang