Johann Peter Beilmann was born in Frei-Laubersheim in the Pfalz on 5 December 1725. He married Anna Maria Petri.
Peter Beilmann, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children ([a] Peter, age 14; Barbara, age 13; [b] Johannes, age 10; Maria, age 8; Helena, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 44. They had settled there on 1 April 1767.
Widower Peter Beilmann is recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm26 along with the family of his daughter Maria Anna Kämmerer née Beilmann.
[a] Peter Beilmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm40.
Peter Beilmann, son of Peter Beilmann, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Volmer in Household No. 25.
Peter Beilmann and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Volmer in Household No. 31 along with a note that he died in 1846.
Peter Beilmann, son of Peter Beilmann, and his brothers Franz, Michael, Johannes, & Lorenz are recorded on the 1857 census of Volmer in Household No. 133 along with a note that they relocated to the daughter colony of Marienfeld in 1852. Peter Beilmann and his brothers from Volmer are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
Nikolaus Beilmann, son of Peter Beilmann, and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Volmer in Household No. 32 along with a note that he died in 1847. His son Michael Beilmann is recorded on the 1857 census of Volmer in Household No. 134 along with a note that he relocated to the daughter colony of Marienfeld in 1852.
Johannes Beilmann, son of Peter Beilmann, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Volmer in Household No. 15.
[b] Johannes Beilmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm18.
Johannes Beilmann and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Volmer in Household No. 55 along with a note that he died in 1828.
[c] In 1789, Lorenz Beilmann, son of Peter Beilmann, moved from Volmer to Dehler.
Lorenz Beilmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl02.
Laurentius [sic] Beilmann and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 203.
Laurentius [sic] Beilmann and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 272 along with a note that he had died in 1840.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 203).
- 1834 Volmer Census (Households No. 15, 25, 55).
- 1850 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 272, 273, 463).
- 1850 Volmer Census (Households No. 31, 32, 72, 73, 100).
- 1857 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 299, 300, 482, 490).
- 1857 Volmer Census (Households No. 24, 72, 73, 133, 134, 142).
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dl02, Vm18, Vm26, Vm40, Mv2919.
- McGinnis, Sean. The Founding Families of Catharine, Kansas (2007).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 293.
Sean McGinnis
Brent Mai