Johann Hahnstein [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Herrman and his new wife Christina settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 10 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52. [One translation of this census records this surname as Holstein, but subsequent documents record this surname as Hohnstein.]
Daniel Hohnstein from Kaneau, believed to be the son of Herrman & Christina, is recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh24.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Herrman Hohnstein came from the German village of Mühlhausen.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 61.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sh24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 255.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #136.
Brent Mai