Johannes Hermann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 20; Johannes, age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.
Johann Hermann, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 18; Johannes, age 17) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the eldest son died en route.
Father Johannes Hermann died after arriving in Saratov, and his widow Anna Margaretha remarried to Nikolaus Rupp.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23 along with surviving son, Johannes Hermann (age 16).
The Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Hermann family came from the German region of Mainz.
- 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): Se34.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 86.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5909.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6458-6461.
Brent Mai