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Fromm (Seelmann)

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Fromm (Seelmann)
Фромъ (Seelmann)
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Joseph Baldauf, a farmer, his wife Ursula, and [stepson] Tobias [Fromm] (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.

Tobias [Fromm] is recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 7 along with his stepfather Joseph Baldauf. They had settled in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.

Widower Tobias Fromm, his son Michael, and Michael's family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm27.

The death of Michael Fromm in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Household No. 76.

Jakob Fromm, presumed to be a son of Tobias, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm30.

Sources

- 1834 Seelmann Census (Households No. 76, 142).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sm27, Sm30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2205.

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