Johann Heinrich Göthmann was born 20 April 1740 in Reichelsheim, Unter-Ostern, Germany. He was the son of Johann Peter Göthmann and Elisabeth Margaretha Hoffmeister who had married on 3 August 1739 in Kirch-Brombach. The Gettman family is originally from Nieder-Kinzig and has been researched back to the 1600s.
Johann Heinrich Kittmann [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Heinrich Göthmann (age 20), a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 98 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter) for Johannes Schäfer. He had arrived in Frank on 1 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Kittmann [sic] came from the German region of Erbach. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Nieder Kinzig in the region of Erbach.
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