Adam Dehlermann, a furrier, his wife Anna, and [step]daughter Klara [surname not recorded] (age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Adam Telermann [sic], his wife Anna, and [step]daughter Maria [surname not recorded] (age 16) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Adam Dehlermann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and stepdaughter Klara [surname not recorded] (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 50). They had settled in Leitsinger on 19 August 1767.
Adam Dehlermann is recorded moving from Neu-Kolonie to Hölzel in 1788.
He is recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz10.
Maria Klara Telermann [sic] (age 43) is recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz04. It is probable that this is the same person as the stepdaughter of Adam Dehlermann recorded in 1767.
The death of Adam Tellermann (age 78) of Hölzel is recorded on 28 April 1804 in the parish register of Preuss.
The 1767 census records that Adam Dehlerman came from the German village of Bessenbach in the Bamberg district.
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): 722.
- 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): Hz04, Hz10, Mv1862.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 71.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5769.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6412-6414.
Brent Mai