[Widower?] Wilhelm Grossmann, a tailor, his children (Louisa, age 18; Julianna, age 10¼; Elisabeth, age 5½; Margaretha, age 3; Karl, age 1½), and his mother Eva Charlotta 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.
Wilhelm Grossmann, his [new] wife Katharina, and children (Louissa [sic], age 18; Juliana, age 10½; Elisabeth 5¾; Margaretha, age 3½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Wilhelm Grossmann died in route.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Wilhelm Grossmann came from the German region of Schwartzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Grossmann 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): 551.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4299.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4985-4990.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Wilhelm Grossmann and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.