Johann Caspar Glockenhammer, son of Valentin & Maria Magdalena Glockenhammer, was born on 15 April 1721 in Hofheim. He married there on 10 January 1745 to Anna Barbara Gräser, daughter of Lorentz & Anna Maria Gräser. They have two known sons: Johannes (born in Hofheim on 29 May 1752) and Johann Adam (born in Hofheim on 19 Jul 1755).
Kaspar Glockenhammer, a farmer, his wife Anna Barbara, and sons (Johann, age 15; Johann Adam, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 20 July 1767. They are recorded there in Household No. 14 on the 1767 Census of Kautz. Anna Barbara evidently died shortly after their arrival in Russia, because on that 1767 Census of Kautz, Johann Caspar is recorded with another wife, Maria Katharina, and her children from a previous marriage.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Glockenhammer came from the German region of Mainz.
- 1811 Kautz Census (Household No. 29).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 427.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kz29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 336.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3329.
- Parish records of Hofheim - LDS Film No. 134031.
Brent Mai