Georg Ammer [sic], a farmer, his wife Sabina, and daughters (Barbara, age 17¼; Barbara [again], age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Georg Amer [sic], his wife Sabina, and daughters (Barbara, age 18; Barbara [again], age 1) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Georg Aman [sic], a physician (Arzt), his wife Sabina, daughter Barbara (age 4), and stepdaughter Barbara [surname not recorded] (age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 19. They had arrived in Hölzel on 11 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Ammer [sic] came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Georg Amen came from the German village of Reichenbach in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Amen family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 774.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 113.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): # 6200.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7761-7764.
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