Johann Adam Gramlich was born in Bofsheim (southeast of Buchen Odenwald; today in Baden-Württemberg) on 4 March 1748.
He, along with his mother Anna Dorothea (age 53) and step-father Michael Marcker (age 39) [who was from Bodigheim in the Odenwald district] migrated to Denmark with Marcker's daughters (Anna Katharina, age 15; Anna Barbara, age 13). They arrived in Fridericia [Denmark] on 21 June 1760.
The parish register of Karup [Denmark] records on 28 August 1760 the marriage of Johannes Adam Kramelich [sic] to Anna Eva Schneider, widow of Leonhard Schneider. [See Schneider Family.]
They are recorded on a list dated 29 September 1760 of colonists in the Danish colonies.
In December 1760, they are recorded in the Danish colony of Friderichsheede.
They are last recorded among the Danish colonies on 26 April 1763.
The parish register of Karup [Denmark] records on 18 January 1761 the baptism of Johann Leonhardt Kramelich [sic], son of Johann Adam Kramelich [sic] & Anna Eva Schneider.
The parish register of Friderichsheede [Denmark] records on 15 April 1763 the baptism of Magdalena Kramelich [sic], daughter of Johann Adam Kramelich [sic] & Anna Eva Schneider.
Adam Gramlich and his new wife Maria Barbara (surname unknown) arrived at the port in Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Citadel along with daughter Anna Dorothea (age 4).
They settled in the Volga German colony of Schilling where they are recorded on the 1775 census in Household No. 15.
Adam is recorded on the 1798 census in the colony of Schilling in Household No. Sg006.
- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 15).
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-493, B-1026, B-1491.
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sg006.
- Parish register of Friderichsheede [Denmark].
- Parish register of Karup [Denmark] (LDS Film No. 054037).
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5217 (p.331).
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