Herrmann (Pfeifer)
Christian Herrmann, a blacksmith, his wife Maria, and children (Margaretha, age 19; Johann[es], age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Johannes Herrmann (age 10), orphaned son of Christian Herrmann, is recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 67 along with the Johann Adam Strack family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Herrmann and Strack families. However, Johann Adam Strack had married Elisabeth Herrmann from Usingen on 11 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen. Elisabeth is believed to also be the daughter of Christian Herrmann.
Johann[es] Herrmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf17.
The 1767 census does not record from where Johannes Herrmann came.
- 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): Pf17.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #634.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 394.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3725.
Brent Mai