Johann Kuhlmann, a joiner (Tischler), his wife Katharina, and son Lorenz (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Widow Catharina Kohlman [sic] and son Lorentz (age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Lorentz died in route.
It is not known in which colony the Widow Katharina Kuhlmann settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kuhlmann came from the German region of Hessen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kuhlmann among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 475.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3708.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2467-2468.
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