Johann Dahmer, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Johannes Dahmer (age 21), a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth (age 24), and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 6-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 55. They had arrived in Dönhof on 18 June 1767.
In 1794, Johannes Dahmer and his family moved from Dönhof to Reinwald.
Heinrich Dahmer from Dönhof and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Franzosen.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Dahmer came from the German region of Stolberg.
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Household No. 27).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 261.
- 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): Dh017, Rw46, Mv0496.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 355.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1870.
Brent Mai