Johann Peter Beilmann, son of Johann Heinrich Beilmann & Maria Agnes Wolf, was born in Frei-Laubersheim on 5 December 1725. He married 4 May 1751 in Fürfeld to Anna Maria Petri, daughter of Mattias Petri & Maria Barbara Keller. [Mattias Petri & Maria Barbara Keller had been married on 23 January 1733 in Fürfeld.]
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Peter Beilmann & Anna Maria Petri are recorded in the parish register of Frei-Laubersheim: (1) Johann Peter, born 3 February 1752; (2) Maria Barbara, born in 1754; (3) Johannes, born in 1756; (4) Anna Maria, born in 1760; (5) Elena, born 3 May 1761; and (6) Anna Catharina, born 29 March 1763.
Peter Beilmann, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children ([a] Peter, age 14; [b] Barbara, age 13; [c] Johannes, age 10; Maria, age 8; Helena, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 44. They had arrived in Volmer 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. The death of Johann Peter Beilmann is recorded in the parish register of Volmer is recorded on 6 August 1799.
[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] [Maria] Barbara Sieben née Beilmann and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su30.
[c] 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.
[d] Lorenz Beilmann, son of Peter Beilmann, was born in 1768 in Volmer. In 1789, Lorenz 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, Su30, Vm18, Vm26, Vm40, Mv2919.
- McGinnis, Sean. The Founding Families of Catharine, Kansas (2007).
- Parish register of Frei-Laubersheim.
- Parish register of Volmer.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 293.
Sean McGinnis
Brent Mai