Johann Moritz Klamm was baptized in Wolfenhausen on 20 June 1728. He and his wife Anna Elizabetha had three children according to the Wolfenhausen parish records: (1) Maria Sophia, baptized 12 May 1754; (2) Elisabeth, baptized 18 August 1758; and (3) Johann Philipp, baptized 25 January 1761.
Mauritius [sic] Klamm, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Sophia, age 13; Christina, age 8; Johann Philipp, age 5; Maria Dorothea, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. Ludwig [sic] Klamm, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Maria Sophia, age 12; Johann Philipp, age 6) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 157 along with a foster-daughter (Pflegetochter) Elisabeth (age 9). It is unclear why Elisabeth would be recorded as a foster-daughter.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mauritius [sic] Klamm came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that Ludwig [sic] Klamm came from the German village of Wolfenhausen in the region of Runkel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Klamm family among the Volga German colonies.
- Parish register of Wolfenhausen (LDS Film #1195145).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 345.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1983.
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