Johann Gottfried Grummet & Catharina Margaretha Maintsch were married on 17 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.
Gottfried Grummeld [sic], a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Gottfried Grummeld [sic] and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottfried Grummet and his wife Katharina are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits attached to the 1767 census (No. 142) along with a note that they settled in the colony of Bettinger in 1768.
Their descendants are recorded on the 1834 census of Bettinger in Households No. 19 & 21.
The 1767 census records that Gottfried Grummet came from the German village of Suhl.
- 1834 Bettinger Census (Households No. 19, 21).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bt29.
- Mai, Brent Alan. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga, 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998), #1266-1267.
- Mai, Brent Alan & Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767): Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #191.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 377.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5547.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3137-3138.
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