The death of Johannes Georg Fromm on 12 February 1760 is recorded in the parish register of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main. He is the only Fromm recorded in this parish and is therefore believed to be the husband of Ursula and father of the Tobias Fromm who settled in Seelmann.
The marriage of the widow Ursula Fromm to Joseph Baldauf is recorded on 19 October 1762 in the parish register of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main.
Joseph Baldauf, a farmer, his wife Ursula, and [stepson] Tobias [Fromm] (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
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.
- 1834 Seelmann Census (Households No. 76, 142).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sm27, Sm30.
- Parish register of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main.
- 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.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main recording the death of Johannes Georg Fromm on 12 February 1760.
Source: Anonymous2.
Entry from the parish register of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main recording the marriage of Joseph Baldauf and the widow Ursula Fromm on 19 October 1762.
Source: Anonymous2.