Johann Heinrich Bachmann, son of Johann Andreas Bachmann & Anna Cunigunda Deisenroth, was born 27 May 1734 in Unterhaun.
Johann Heinrich Bachmann married on 3 February 1764 in Unterhaun to Christina Elisabeth Kehl, daughter of Christoph Kehl & Anna Maria Reinmöller.
The baptism Johann Georg Bachmann, son of Johann Heinrich Bachmann & Christina Elisabeth Kehl, is recorded in the parish register of Unterhaun on 17 June 1764. He had been born on 14 June 1764.
Johann Heinrich Bachmann, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, son Georg Johann (age 2½), and his wife's sister Maria [sic] [Anna Martha Kehl] (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Johann Heinrich Bachmann, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann Georg, age 4½; Anna Maria, age ¾) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 17. They had arrived in Norka on 15 August 1767.
The Bachmann family is recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 64.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Heinrich Bachmann came from the German region of Hessen.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 64).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 487.
- 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): Nr024, Nr067.
- Parish register of Unterhaun.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 232.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3813.
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