Gottfried Riemer & Anna Magdalena Batzel were married on 15 May 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Gottfried Riemer, a carpenter, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Gottfried Römer and his wife Anna Magdalena are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottfried Riemer, a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Magdalena are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 42. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
Gottfried Riemer and his descendants are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Households No. Or01 and Or31.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Riemer came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Gottfried Riemer came from the German region of Dessau.
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