Jacob Kohlmann (age 32), a farmer, his wife Gertruth Schmid (age 32), and daughter Barbara (age 1) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Johann Jakob Kohlmann, son of Johannes Kohlmann & Anna Barbara Gruber, was baptized on 2 April 1734 in Alzey, Rheinhessen. He married there in August 1764 to Gertrude Schmitt. They had earlier had a daughter, Barbara, baptized on 12 May 1764 in Alzey.
Johann Jakob Kohlmann, a farmer, his wife Gertrude, and children (Barbara, age 4; Johannes, age 2; Jakob, age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 23. They had settled there on 18 July 1766.
Jakob Kohlmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Households No. Su28 & Su29.
The 1765 Worms list records that Jacob Kohlmann came from the German village of Alzey. The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Kohlmann came from the German village of Alzey in the Kurpfalz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 130 (#433-435).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Su28, Su29.
- Parish records of Alzey (LDS Film No. 996676).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 115.
Brent Mai