Johannes Hohmann, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Maria Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Anna (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No 29. They had settled there on 15 June 1767.
Johann Hohmann, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
Johann Hohmann and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf59.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Homann came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Lohmann came from the German village of Elters [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hohmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 352.
- 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): Pf59.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 384.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2654.
Brent Mai