Johann Aulmann, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Maria, age 5; Philipp, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann.
Philipp Aulmann, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Dorothea (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 35. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
Widower Philipp Aulmann and his daughters are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. 31.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Aulmann came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Philipp Aulmann came from the German village of Waltz [?] in the Nassau-Idstein region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Aulmann family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 525.
- 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): Lb31.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 28.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4108 (p.267).
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