Conrad Lissmann, a farmer, and his family came from the German village of Fischborn. The church there is part of the Unterreichenbach parish where the baptisms of several of his children are recorded. By his first wife, the baptisms of the following children are recorded: (1) Anna Elisabeth, 18 July 1745; (2) Johann Georg, 22 December 1749; and (3) J. Heinrich, 14 August 1756. His first wife died, and on 16 November 1761, Conrad remarried to Anna Maria (maiden name unknown) and their son Johann Heinrich was born on 10 September 1761 and baptized on 12 September 1761.
Konrad Lissmann, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and sons (Johann Georg, age 18; Johann Heinrich, age 12; Johann Heinrich, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
The family settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 92 (with Conrad's 3rd wife listed as Katharina).
Konrad Lissmann, his wife Katharina, and sons (Johann Georg, age 20; Johann Heinrich, age 18; Johann Wilhelm, age 3) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 32.
In 1791, son Heinrich moved to the colony of Dönhof where he is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Dh010.
Son Georg moved to the colony of Huck where he is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Hd19.
In 1792, Wilhelm Lissmann moved from Norka to Dönhof.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Lissmann came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 32).
- 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): 618.
- 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): Dh010, Dh075, Hk19, Mv1957.
- Parish register of Unterreichenbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 253.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4952.
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