Michael Rumbach, a mason (Maurer), his wife Anna, and children (Eva, age 18; Melchior, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Michel Rumbach, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Eva, age 18; Melchior, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52.
Melchior Rumbach and his children ([a] Gottfried, age 14; [b] Johannes, age 11; [c] Adam, age 6; [d] Kaspar, age 4; Katharina, age 2) are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om56.
[a] The death of Gottfried Rumbach in 1834 is recorded on the 1834 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 7.
[b] The death of Johannes Rumbach in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 7.
[c] Johann Adam Rumbach and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 81.
The death of Adam Rumbach in 1848 is recorded on the 1850 census of Ober-Monjou in Household no. 106.
[d] Kaspar Rumbach and his wife are recorded on the 1834 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 95.
Kaspar Rumbach and his wife are recorded on the 1850 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 123.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Rumbach came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Michael Rumbach came from the German village of Gerstheim in the region of Würzburg.
- 1834 Ober-Monjou Census (Households No. 7, 81, 95).
- 1850 Ober-Monjou Census (Households No. 106, 123).
- 1857 Ober-Monjou Census (Households No. 9, 122, 124, 144).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 211.
- 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): Om56.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 301.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1455.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1414-1416.
Brent Mai