Baumann (Beauregard-1)*

Franz Laumann [sic], a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Franz Laumann [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

This Franz Laumann is believed to be the Franz Baumann, a single Hussar - member of the light cavalry (Husar), who settled in the Volga German colony of Beauregard on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No 63.

This is believed to be the same Franz Baumann who, in 1775, is recorded as leaving the colony of Katharinenstadt for an undisclosed destination.

Franz Baumann (age 37), a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth née Schulz (widow Bauer) (age 31) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 94 along with a note that she died in 1778.

Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Franz Baumann came from the German village of Bischofsheim. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that his wife came from the German village of Schleither in the Hanau region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Baumann family among the Volga German colonies.