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Böhm (Brabander)

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Böhm (Brabander)
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Johann Ulrich Böhm, a carpenter (Zimmermann), his wife Anna Maria, and son Sigismundus (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.

Johann Ulrich Böhm, his wife Anna Maria, and son Sigmundus (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 85. They had settled in Brabander on 26 June 1767.

The death of Johann Ulrich Böhm in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Brabander in Household No. 17.

The death of Siegmund Böhm in 1834 is recorded on the 1834 census of Brabander in Household No. 45.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Ulrich Böhm came from the German region of Böhmen. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Romebschreit (?) in Böhmen (Bohemia).

Sources

- 1811 Brabander Census (Households No. 20, 43).
- 1834 Brabander Census (Households No. 17, 45).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 401.
- 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): Bn20, Bn43.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 232.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3089.

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