Lorentz Kämmerer from Maÿnz & Catharina Völcker from Oberach were married on 1 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Lorenz Kämmerer, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Lorenz Kemer [sic], a farmer, and his wife Katharina Hein are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 40 along with her siblings (Franziskus Hein, age 13; Magdalena Hein, age 10), children of the deceased Johannes Hein. They had settled in Göbel on 25 May 1767.
Lorenz Kämmerer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb66.
The death of Lorenz Kämmerer in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Göbel in Household No. 83.
Jakob Kemmerer from Göbel and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Lorenz Kämmerer came from the German region of Mainz. 1767 census records that Lorenz Kemer came from the German village of Großerlach in the Kurmainz region.
- 1834 Göbel Census (Household No. 83).
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 101.
- 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): Gb66.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #357.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 49.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #493.
Brent Mai