1. Surnames
  2. Bohn (Unknown)*

Bohn (Unknown)*

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Spelling Variations: 
Бонъ (Unknown)*
Bohn (Unknown)*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Pre-Volga Origin: 
Edlendorf, Kr. Hof, Bayern
Discussion & Documentation: 

Christian Bohn, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766.

Christian Bohn is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Widower Christian Bohn, a farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 50. He had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

It is not known in which Volga German colony Christian Bohn eventually settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Bohn came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Edlendorf.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Bohn family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 361.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4419.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5990.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies