Philipp Neumann and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 8 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
The 1798 census of Kutter (Household No. Kt30) records that Eberhart Neumann is working as a tailor in Straub.
Eberhard Neimann from Kutter is recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 65 along with a note that he had arrived in Straub from Kutter in 1801.
The death of Eberhard Neimann in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Straub in Household No. 81.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Neumann was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Philipp Neumann came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 65).
- 1834 Straub Census (Household No. 81).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 415.
- 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): Kt30, Kt69.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 477.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3227.
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