Johann Heinrich Hof(f)mann, son of Johann Adam Hoffmann (31 August 1704 - 12 August 1771) & Anna Maria Helmstädter (18 July 1708 - 27 October 1752), was born about 1740 in Langen-Brombach.
Johann Heinrich Hofmann married on 22 October 1765 in Michelstadt to Margaretha Elisabeth Göttman from Kirch-Brombach. Following their marriage, they resided in Langenbrombach.
Johann Heinrich Hoffmann, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Katharina (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
Johann Heinrich Hoffmann, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Katharina (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 90. They had arrived in Frank on 1 September 1767.
The children of Johann Heinrich Hoffmann are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk081.
The death of Johannes Hoffmann, son of Johann Heinrich Hoffmann, in 1839 is recorded on the 1850 census of Frank in Household No. 233.
Jakob Hoffmann, son of Johannes Hoffmann, from Frank and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Langenfeld.
The death of [Peter] Karl Hoffmann, son of Johann Heinrich Hoffmann, in 1849 is recorded on the 1850 census of Frank in Household No. 92.
The death of Adam Hoffmann, son of [Peter] Karl Hoffmann, in 1848 is also recorded on the 1850 census of Frank in Household No. 92.
Paul Hoffmann, son of Adam Hoffmann, from Frank and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Langenfeld.
Nikolaus Hoffmann, son of [Peter] Karl Hoffmann, and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Frank in Household No. 93.
Nikolaus Hoffmann from Frank and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Langenfeld.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Hoffmann came from the German region of Erbach. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Hoffmann came from the German village of Langebranich [?] in the Erbach region.
- 1850 Frank Census (Households No. 92, 93, 233).
- 1858 Langenfeld Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 759.
- 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): Fk081.
- Ortsfamilienbuch Langenbrombach [Online].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 433.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6073.
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