Ho(h)mann (Unknown)*

Nikolaus Hoffmann [sic], a weaver, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 13; Maria, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Nicolaus Hohmann, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 12; Johann, age ¾) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Maria and son Johann died en route.

Because they are traveling with other families recorded on the 1767 appendix to Beauregard, the above Nikolaus Hohmann is believed to be Nikolaus Hohmann (age 45), a linenweaver (Leineweber), and his [new] wife Christina who are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 61.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Hoffmann [sic] came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Hohmann came from the German village of Unterweld [Unterweid?].

There are many Hohmann families in Unterweid. One is a Nicolaus Hohmann, son of Georg Hohmann & Catharina Hohmann, who was born and baptized on 29 Otober 1721 in Unterweid. His line does not appear to continue there, but further research is needed to confirm that this is indeed the Nikolaus Hohmann who later immigrated to the Volga German colonies.

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