Johan Peter Adelmeÿer, a farmer from the area of Darmstadt, & Catharina Knop from the area of Isenburg were married on 27 May 1766 in a house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann Peter Adelmeier, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 68.
In 1788, widow Anna Margaretha Adelmaier and her children moved from Frank to Kamenka.
The Facius List records that J. Peter Adalmayer (age 26) came from the German village of Wallernhausen. The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Adelmeier came from the German village of Fauerbach in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 612.
- 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): Mv0630.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #232.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 429.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4904.
Brent Mai