Johann Adam Baumong, son of Johannes & Christina Margaretha Baumong, was born 1 March 1763 in Reichenbach.
There are two Baumung families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann. Their relationship to each other, if any, requires additional research.
(1) Johann[es] Baumut [sic], a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Johann (age 4) are recorded on the Oranienbaum passenger list.
Johannes Baumung, his wife Christina, and son Johann Adam (age 4) are recorded on the Transport List from St. Petersburg to the German colonies along the Volga River.
They are believed to have settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach and therefore are the parents of Georg Jakob Baumung (born approximately 1767) who is recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs133.
Georg Jakob Baumung and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 133.
Georg Jakob Baumung and his descendants are recorded on the 1834 census of Hussenbach in Households No. 140, 216, & 230.
(2) Konrad Baumung, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Maria (age 1/6-year) are recorded on the Oranienbaum passenger list.
It is not known what happened to this Baumung family after arrival in Russia.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that these two Baumung families came from the German region of Schönberg.
This family is believed to have been French Huguenot refugees living in Odenwald. The surname was Germanized from Beaumont to Baumong/Baumunk/Baumung.
- 1811 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 133).
- 1834 Hussenbach Census (Households No. 140, 216, 230).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 526.
- 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): Hs133.
- Mai, Brent Alan. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga, 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #3125-3127.
- Parish register of Reichenbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4115, #4117 (p. 268).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7128-7130.
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