David Hohndorf, a tailor, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pinkom.
David's surviving son settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20 living with the Christoph Lipps family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Hohndorf and Lipps families.
In 1790, David Hohndorf moved from Orlovskaya to Schäfer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that David Hohndorf came from the German region of Köthen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hohndorf family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Mv2180.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 316.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4317.
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