Johann Dietrich Homburg from Calden in Hessen married in Gelnhaar on 25 February 1740 to Maria Catharina Rohm, daughter of Johann Caspar Rohm.
The baptisms of ten children born to this couple are recorded in the parish register of Bleichenbach: (1) Johann Georg, born 23 January 1741, baptized 27 January 1741, died 26 March 1741; (2) Johannes, born 22 May 1742, baptized 25 May 1742; (3) Johann Georg, born 9 February 1745, baptized 13 February 1745, died 6 May 1747; (4) Johann Heinrich, born 23 April 1747, baptized 26 April 1747, died 4 May 1750; (5) Johann Michael, born 4 September 1749, baptized 7 September 1749, died 17 September 1749; (6) Anna Margaretha, born 16 October 1750, baptized 20 October 1750, died 26 October 1750; (7) Johann Philipp, born 7 April 1752, baptized 11 April 1752; (8) Anna Elisabeth, born 15 November 1754, baptized 19 November 1754; (9) Johann Leonard, born 13 Jun 1757, baptized 20 June 1757, died 12 April 1758; and (10) Eva Elisabeth, born 28 October 1759, baptized 1 November 1759.
The Büdingen marriages report that Johannes Homburg married Julianna Kraft from Storndorf on 15 June 1766. Anna Julianna Kraft (daughter of Johann Heinrich Kraft) was baptized 10 February 1735 in Storndorf.
Johannes Homburg from Gelnhaar [child No. 2 above] married on 15 June 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen to Juliana Krafft from Strondorff.
[The parish register of Storndorf records the baptism there of Anna Julianna Kraft, daughter of Johann Heinrich Kraft, on 10 February 1735.]
Dietrich Hamburg [sic], his wife Maria Katharina, and children (Johann and his wife Julianna; Philipp, age 16; and Elisabeth, age 12] arrived in the port at Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766.
Dietrich and his wife evidently died in route to Walter, because the children arrived there without them on 10 September 1767. The children and Johann's wife Julianna are listed in Walter on the 1767 Census in Household No. 89.
The children of Heinrich Hamburg (b. 1867 in Walter) were born in Frank.
The descendants of this family are recorded in Russian records with the surname of Hamburg as well as Homburg.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hs096, Wt031, Wt079.
- Mai, Brent Alan & Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767): Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #695.
- Parish register of Bleichenbach (LDS Film No. 1201908).
- Parish register of Storndorf.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 315.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6050, #6093.
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