Spelling Variations
Hermann (Schwab)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Jakob Hermann, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
He is recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb05.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Hermann came from the German region of Erbach.
Sources
- 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): Sb05.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2620.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai