Michael Grollmann married Gertruda [surname unknown]. The births of their following children are recorded in the parish register of Bodenheim: (1) Anna Maria, born 21 March 1727; (2) Anna Barbara, born 9 January 1731; (3) Klara, born 22 August 1732; (4) Johannes Adam, born 25 July 1736; (5) Barbara, born 17 December 1738; died 5 May 1761; (6) Anton born 11 July 1743; and (7) Maria Katharina, born 10 November 1744.
Johannes Adam Grollmann married on 26 June 1763 in Bodenheim to Anna Regina Schmidt, daughter of Martin & Anna Eilsabetha Schmidt. She had been born 17 March 1738 in Bodenheim.
The birth of a daughter to Johannes Adam Grollmann & Anna Regina Schmidt is recorded in the parish register of Bodenheim: Odilia, born 11 October 1765.
Adam Grollmann, a farmer, his wife Regina, and daughter Ottilia (age 1¼), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Adam Grollmann (age 31), a farmer, and his wife Regina (age 29) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 28. They had arrived in Keller on 12 May 1767.
Following the destruction of the colony of Keller in 1774, the family is presumed to have resettled to Neu-Kolonie.
Regina Adam [widow Grollmann] (age 60) and her husband Heinrich Adam (age 46) are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk10.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Grollmann came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Adam Grollmann came from the German village of Bodenheim in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Grollmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 146.
- 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): Nk10.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 347.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #894.
Brent Mai