There are two Klamm families that both arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg. They are believed to be father and son, but further research is necessary to confirm this relationship.
(1) Widower Jakob Klamm, a farmer, arrived in Oranienbaum.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 141 with a note that he is living with his son-in-law Heinrich Meier.
(2) Johann [Michael] Klamm, a wool weaver (Wollweber), his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 3) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Michael Klamm, his wife Anna Maria, and son Heinrich Peter (age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 38. They had settled in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
Michael Klamm and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr007 with Heinrich Peter Klamm and his wife in Household No. Wr008.
The death of Michael Klamm in 1803 is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 7.
Heinrich Peter Klamm and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 8.
Johann Daniel Klamm, believed to be a son of Michael Klamm, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr109.
Johannes Daniel Klamm is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 109 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Preuss [year not recorded].
Johann Daniel Klamm from Warenburg and his son Ludwig Jakob (age ½) are recorded on the 1811 census of Preuss in Household No. 93 along with a note that he had arrived in Preuss from Warenburg in 1811.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both of these Klamm families came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Jakob Klamm came from the German village of Ziegenberg near Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Michael Klamm came from the German village of Zierburg [Ziegenberg] in the Darmstadt region.
- 1811 Preuss Census (Household No. 84).
- 1811 Warenburg Census (Households No. 7, 8, 109).
- 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): 173.
- 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): Wr007, Wr008, Wr109.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 440.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 327.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1136, #1137.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1633-1634.
Brent Mai