Georg Friedrich Grassmann [sic], a cobbler (Schuster), and his wife Anna Sophia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Johann Fridrich Grassmey, his wife Johanna Sophia, and son Johann Philip (born in route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Friedrich Grasmück (age 32), a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna Rosina (age 34), and son Johann Georg (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 5. They had arrived in Lauwe on 19 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Friedrich Grassmann [sic] came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Friedrich Grasmück came from the German village of Friedland in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There do no known surviving male descendants of this Grasmück family among the Volga German colonies. [Descendants of another Grasmück family from Balzer moved to Lauwe, and all families in Lauwe appear to be descendants of this Balzer-originated family.]
- 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): 664.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 38.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5274 (p.338).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2107-2109.
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