Jakob Johann [sic] Forschmann, a craftsman (Handwerker), and settled in the Volga German colony of Fischer on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18 along with his new wife Anna Rosina, the widow of Friedrich Leist, and two stepdaughters (Susanna Leist, age 12; Sophia Leist, age 8).
The 1767 census records that Jacob Johann [sic] Forschmann came from the Swedish city of Stockholm and that Anna Rosina came from the village of Sernow in Prussia.
- 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): Fs09.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 412.
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