Johann Georg Grimminger [sic] (age 35), a farmer and weaver (Leinweber), his wife Johanna Marta Zeiß (age 35), and children (Johann Heinrich, age 6; Elisabetha Margaretha, age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 4 September 1765. A note on the Worms list records that daughter Elisabetha Margaretha died in Hamburg in route to Russia.
Johann Georg Grimminger [sic], a farmer, and his wife [Joh]Anna Martha settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 1 March 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49.
Johann Friedrich Grimmig & Johann Konrad Grimmig, sons of the deceased Georg Grimmig, are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br01.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Georg Grimminger [sic] came from the German village of Neulußheim. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Grimminger came from the German village of Neulußheim in the Württemberg region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 112 (#004-007).
- 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): Br01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 128.
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