Johann Engelmann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children ([step-son] Johann [Flach], age 16¼; Wilhelm, age 12¼; Maria, age 10¼; Anna, age 5¼; Johann Peter, age 2¼; Heinrich, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Johannes Engelmann, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann Wilhelm, age 14; Margaretha, age 10; Anna Eva, age 6; Heinrich Peter, age 3-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 31 along with stepson Johannes Flach (age 18). They had settled in Laub on 19 August 1767.
Daughter Maria Margaretha Engelmann, wife of Heinrich Dellos, is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb17.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Engelmann came from the German region of Weilburg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Engelmann came from the German village of Reichenborn in the Nassau-Weilburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Engelmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 156.
- 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): Lb17.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 27.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #981.
Brent Mai