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 (Arzt), and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
The parish register of Schilling records the birth of Nikolaus Valentin Kemnitz, son of Karl Christian Kemnitz & Anna Maria Preuss, on 2 May 1767 in Kolomna while en route to the colonies.
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). The parish register of Schilling records that Karl Christian Kemnitz came from the German village of Torgau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 708.
- 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 Schilling.
- 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.
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