Johann Adam Dillmann, son of Johann Balthasar Dillmann & Anna Maria Wilg, was baptized 7 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom).
Balthasar Dillmann, his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 7; Michael, age 4; Christian, age 2¼; Johann, age 6-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Balthas. Thielmann, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Anna Barbara (age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Maria and daughter Anna Barbara died en route.
Balthasar is recorded [erroneously with surname Bielmann] in Household No. 34 on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya along with a new wife Margaretha.
In 1771, Balthasar Thielmann and his family moved from Kind to Schaffhausen.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Balthasar Dillmann came from the German village of Schönberg.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 676.
- 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): Mv1269.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) : Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1306.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 358.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5369.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2979-2981.
Brent Mai