Johann [Nikolaus] Trumheller, a farmer, and his brother Johann [Valentin] (age 19) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Nikolaus Trumheller married a widow named Anna Margaretha who had two children: Johann Adam & Maria Katharina [surname Räder]. They are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 28. [See Rader Family.]
Widower Valentin Trumheller, his daughter Anna Katharina (age 4), and stepdaughter Katharina Margaretha (age 10) [surname not recorded] are recorded on the 1775 census of Schilling in Household No. 18.
Valentin Trumheller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg019 along with a note that he is working as a shepherd in the colony of Anton.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that the Trumheller brothers came from the German region of Ansbach.
Some early translations of this surname recorded it as Drumheller.
- 1775 Beideck Census (Household No. 28).
- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 18).
- 1834 Schilling Census (Households No. 126, 146).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 104.
- 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): Sg019.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #527.
Brent Mai