Johann [Georg] Blum, his wife Anna, and daughters (Elisabeth, age 5; Anna, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Georg Bluhm [sic], his wife Elisabetha, and daughters (Elisabetha, age 5¼; Anna Elisabetha, age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Anna Elisabetha died en route.
Johann Georg Blum, a farmer (Ackerbauer), his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Elisabeth (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 80. They had arrived in Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann [Georg] Blum came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Seedorf.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Blum family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 202.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4676.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2896-2899.
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