Hoffmann (Jost-1)
Spelling Variations:
Hoffmann (Jost-1)
Гофманъ (Jost-1)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Hoffmann, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.
The 1767 census records that Johann Hoffmann came from the German village of Hirschberg in the German region of Schlesien (Silesia).
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 200.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1947.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai