Asmus (Walter / Yagodnaya Polyana)
There are two Asmus families from Wallernhausen that settled in the Volga German colonies. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Conrad Asmus, son of Heinrich Aßmuß & Barbara Elisabetha Jung (who had been married 28 November 1709 in Wallerhausen), married in Wallernhausen on 30 November 1739 to Anna Maria Stang, daughter of Conrad Stang & Elisabetha Nohl (who had been married on 4 July 1710 in Wallernhausen).
Conrad Asmus & Anna Maria Stang had a total of eight children in Wallernhausen including: (1) Johann Peter, baptized 7 May 1743; (2) Anna Elisabetha, baptized 2 November 1747; and (3) Johann Heinrich, baptized 22 September 1761.
Johann Peter Asmus [born 1743] from Wallernhausen & Anna Eliesabeth [sic] Rontaler were married on 1 July 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Konrad Asmus, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Elisabeth, age 19; Johann Heinrich, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Johannes under the command of Skipper Stahl. Arriving with them were Peter Asmus [believed to be another son of Kaspar], a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth.
Conradt [sis] Asmus, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 20) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Anna Maria died in route. Johann Peter Asmus and his wife Anna Elisabeth are also recorded with Conradt and his family.
Widower Johann Kaspar Asmus and his daughter Elisabeth (age 19) are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 10. They had settled there on 16 September 1767. Peter Asmus and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 12 along with the single Helena Margaretha Müller (age 26). The 1767 census does not record a relagionship between the Asmus and Müller families.
Peter Asmus, his wife Elisabeth Ronthaler, and their family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp26.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Asmus family came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that they are from the German village of Wallernhausen near Nidda.
(2) Johannes Asmus, son of Caspar & Anna Catharina Asmus, was born 24 February 1740 and baptized 26 February 1740 in Wallernhausen.
Anna Elisabetha Mertz, daughter of Johann Nicolaus Mertz and Anna Katharina Kraft, was born 31 March 1738 and baptized 3 April 1738 in Lißberg. [See Mertz Family.]
Anna Elisabetha had two children with Daniel Friedrich Bautz. [See Bautz Family].
The lists of the recruiter Johann Facius describe Anna Elisabetha's household of 4 individuals as follows: Anna Elisabetha Metz [sic], 27-years-old widow of Bautz from Lißberg, with one son 5-years-old and one daughter 3-years-old with mother Anna Catharina Metz [sic], widowed.
Johannes Asmus is reported separately, described as a 26-year -old farmer from Wallernhausen on the Facius recruiting list.
The marriage of Johannes Asmus from Lißberg & Anna Elisabetha Mertz from Lißberg is recorded in the parish register of the Lutheran church in Büdingen on 25 June 1766.
Johann Asmus, his wife Elisabeth, [step-]children (Johann Konrad [Bautz], age 5; Anna Sophia [Bautz], age 3), and his mother-in-law Anna Katharina [Mertz née Kraft] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.
Johannes Asmus, a farmer, his [new] wife Julianna, [step-]daughter Sophia [Bautz] (age 5), and [step-]daughter Maria [surname not recorded] (age 2½) are recorded o nthe 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 71. They had arrived in Walter on 25 August 1767.
Johann Georg Asmus, son of the deceased Johannes Asmus, is recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt036 along with a note that he is working in the neighboring colony of Huck.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Asmus was a farmer from the German region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker) from the German village of Wahlshausen [sic] in the region of Hessen-Darmstadt.
Juliana Asmus from Yagodnaya Polyana and her family are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana.
- 1857 Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Rauschenbach, Georg. Auswanderung deutsche Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: 2019): 34.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Wt036, Yp26.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #711, #725.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Lißberg.
- Parish register of Wallernhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 175-176.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institute, 2008): 311.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6304, #6329, #6378.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8156-8160.
- Wirth, Arnold & Kötting, Rainer. Evang. Gemeinde Wallernhausen (Wetterau): Heiraten 1645-1932 (Darmstadt, Germany : Hessische familiengeschichtliche Vereinigung, 1992): #11, #28, #1037. [Online]
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