Damm (Näb)*
Johann Philipp Damm was born in Reiskirchen. He resided in Großen-Buseck where he had married on 28 June 1747 to Anna Catharina Rausch. They had four children, each born in Großen-Buseck: (1) Anna Barbara, born 21 April 1748; (2) Johann Christoffel, born 24 November 1750; (3) Anna Dorothea, born 28 January 1753; and (4) Elisabetha Dorothea, born 11 May 1756.
The Damms and their three youngest children immigrated to Russia. They left Lübeck aboard the galliot Anna Catharina with Johann Joachim Janson as skipper. The ship arrived in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766.
Johann Damm, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Christoph, age 18; Dorothea, age 16; Elisabeth, age 13) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 62. They had arrived there on 17 August 1767.
The widow and daughter of Christoph Damm are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb31.
Johann Philipp's youngest daughter, Elisabeth, is recorded as being from Näb on the 1798 Census in Susannental (Household No. Ss18) and is married to Johannes Roth. Her widowed sister Anna Dorothea is living with them.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Damm family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Nb31.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 363.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 254.
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