Notes for: Helena Spenst

Her age is given as 28 in the 1803 immigration list found in Peter Rempel's book Mennonite Migration to Russia, 1788-1828, p. 60, suggesting that she was born ca 1775. He age is given as 32 in the 1808 Molotschna Colony Census, suggesting that she was born ca 1776 (B. H. Unruh, p. 310). Her age is given as 58 in the 1835 Molotschna Colony Census, suggesting that she was born ca 1776. The Busau Church Book Vol. 1, p. 91, incorrectly gives her first name as Katharina.