The marriage of Carl Christian Chemnitz & Anna Maria Breuss on 8 August 1766 is recorded in the parish register of St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Evangelische Kirche Sankt Petri) in Lübeck.
Karl Christian Kemnitz, a physician, and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard the galliot Der Jan under the command of Skipper Markus Dragun.
Karl Stumpp records that Karl Gemnitz [sic] settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Karl Christian Kemnitz came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #122.
- Parish register of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Lübeck (LDS Film No. 326271).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 295.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5659.
Brent Mai
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