Aumann
Kaspar Ammon [sic] and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Caspar Ammon [sic], his wife Barbara, and chidren (Georg, age 6; Jacob, age 4; Cathrina, age 3) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Barbara died in route.
They are recorded in 1767 on a Beauregard list of recruits in Household No. 49 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Luzern in 1768.
In 1783, Jakob Aumann moved from Luzern to Wittmann.
Michael Aumann is recorded moving to Wittmann on the 1834 census of Luzern in Household No. 48.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Ammon was a carpenter from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 Beauregard list records that he was a farmer from the German village of Buchfeld in the Bamberg region.
- 1834 Luzern Census (Household No. 48).
- 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): Lz10, Lz18, Wm02, Mv1607.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 359.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4583.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5826-5830.
Brent Mai