Johann Imhoff, his wife Anna Barbara, and daughter Katharina Elisabeth [age not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Johann Imhoff, his wife Anna Barbara Seibel, and daughter Katharina Elisabeth (age 3) settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Imhoff was a farmer from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that he was a blacksmith (Schmied) from the German village of Orb.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Imhoff family among the Volga German colonies.
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- 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): Kl82.
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Brent Mai