Johann Adam Bachmann [sic], a botton maker (Knopfmacher), and his wife Johanna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Adam Bachmann and his wife Johanna Elisab. are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Adam Bachmann and his [new] wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 13. They had arrived in Paulskaya on 22 July 1767.
Adam Bachmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl08 along with a note that, except for his son, they are all now in Krasnoyar where he is the schoolmaster, and that he was not listed anywhere in the 1788 census because he was in Grimm where he was also the schoolmaster.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Bachmann came from the German region of Köttwitz. The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Bachmann came from the German village of Blauenthal near Kotteritz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 224.
- 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): Pl08.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 334.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1586.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1086-1087.
Brent Mai