The parish register of Schwickartshausen records the baptisms of seven children to Johannes Hoffman & Julianna Schmolbach, each born in Eckartsborn: (1) Maria Catharina, born 17 July1748, baptized 21 July 1748; (2) Anna Catharina, born 4 October 1749, baptized 7 October 1749; (3) Magdalena, born 6 February 1753, baptized 9 February 1753, died in 1759; (4) Johann Heinrich, born 18 February 1756, baptized 21 February 1756; (5) Andreas, born 19 July 1759, baptized 22 July 1759; (6) Johann Conrad, born 19 July 1762, baptized 22 July 1762, died 16 October 1762; and (7) Gertraud, born 31 August 1763, baptized 2 September 1763.
Johann[es] Hoffmann, a farmer, his wife Julianna, and children (Katharina, age 21; Anna, age 18; Johann Heinrich, age 11; Andreas, age 8) 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.
Johannes Hoffmann, his wife Anna Katharina, and sons (Johannes, age 16; Johann Heinrich, age 11) settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 73. [Anna Katharina is apparently the 2nd wife of Johannes Hoffmann, and the 16-year-old Johannes must be her son from a previous marriage.]
The widow and children of [Johann] Heinrich Hoffmann are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk082.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Hoffmann came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that they are from Eckarsbrun [Eckartsborn] in the district of Hessen-Darmstadt.
- 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): 757.
- 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): Fk082.
- Parish register of Schwickartshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 430.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6058.
- Stumpp, Karl. The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the years 1763 to 1862 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1982): 135.
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Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Hoffmann and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.