Widow Anna Margaretha Volmer and her sons (Philipp Carl, age 12; Johann Wilhelm, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Wilhelm Volmer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf20.
The death of Wilhelm Volmer in 1830 is recorded on the 1834 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 159.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Margaretha Volmer came from the German village of Pfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Volmer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 492.
- 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): Pf20.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3858.
Brent Mai