Sinner (Balzer)

Johannes Sinner, son of Sebastian Sinner, was baptized 2 September 1714 in Fischborn. He married in Fischborn on 11 December 1737 to Anna Maria Sauer, daughter of Henrich & Charlotte Sauer. She had been baptized 15 January 1715 in Fischborn.

The baptisms of several children of Johannes Sinner & Anna Maria Sauer are recorded in the parish register of Fischborn: (1) Anna Elisabeth, baptized 11 February 1741; (2) Johann Henrich, baptized 3 July 1738; (3) Ernestina Charlotta, baptized 16 March 1743; (4) Johann Conrad, baptized 8 August 1746; (5) Johann Georg, baptized 9 July 1749; (6) Anna Margaretha, baptized 23 March 1752; (7) Johannes, baptized 12 August 1755; and (8) Johann Heinrich, baptized 25 January 1758.

Eldest daughter Anna Elisabeth Sinner married 19 April 1766 in Büdingen to Johann Heinrich Becker from Fischborn. [See Becker Family.]

Johann Sinner, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Konrad, age 23; Johann Georg, age 20; Anna Margaretha, age 15; Johann, age 12; Johann Heinrich, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

Father Johann died. Widow Anna Maria and the children settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 8 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 102.

In 1797, Johann Heinrich Sinner moved from Balzer to Norka.

The 1798 census of Galka records Johannes Sinner from Balzer in Household No. Gk38.

The 1798 census of Balzer (Bz100) records that Johann Adam Sinner is working in Kukkus.

There is a Heinrich Sinner (age 42) recorded on the 1798 census in the colony of Dreispitz (Dr03). He is believed to be the Johann Heinrich (age 8) who arrived in Oranienbaum in 1766.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that this Sinner family came from the German region of Isenburg.