Spelling Variations
Hoffmann (Krasnoyar-1)
Гофманъ (Krasnoyar-1)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Just Hoffmann, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 115.
The 1767 census records that Jost Hoffmann came from the German village of Grünberg in the Darmstadt region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 446.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4155.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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