The marriage of Joseph Baldauf and the widow Ursula Fromm is recorded on 19 October 1762 in the parish register of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main. [See Fromm Family.]
Joseph Baldauf, a farmer, his wife Ursula, and [stepson] Tobias [Fromm] (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Joseph Baldauf, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Ursula, and stepson Tobias [Fromm] (age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 7. They had arrived in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Baldauf came from the German village of Gemünden in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Sm31.
- Parish register of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2205.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Gemünden am Main recording the marriage of Joseph Baldauf and the widow Ursula Fromm on 19 October 1762.
Source: Anonymous2.