Johannes Feldmann, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughter Anna (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Feldmann and his daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 20) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johann Feldmann died en route.
Elisabeth Duxberger Hahn née Feldmann from Cäsarsfeld is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka039.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Feldmann came from the German region of Bergen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Feldmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Ka039.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4508.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4344-4345.
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