Grimminger
Johann Georg Grimminger (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, 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 Grimminger & Johann Konrad Grimminger, sons of the deceased Georg Grimminger, are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br01.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Georg Grimminger 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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