Nikolaus Baumann, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Anna Maria, age 19; Heinrich, age 15; Elisabeth, age 5; Johann, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 10 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
In 1788, Paul Baumann moved from Köhler to Göbel. He is recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel (as Baumer) in Household No. Gb61 and his son Kaspar (as Baumann) on the 1834 census of Göbel in Household No. 92.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Baumann came from the German region of Schönbronn. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 760.
- 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): Gb61, Kl28, Kl48, Mv1308.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 363.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6081.
Brent Mai