An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:
Samuel Isman, a shoelace maker (Nestler), son of Gottfried Ismann, a shoelace maker (Nestler) in Breslau, & Marg. Magd. Bernhard, widow of Joh. Samuel Bernhard, formerly specialty dealer (Spezereihändler) in Nürnberg, both Lutheran, were married on 10 April 1766 in the sacristy of the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.
Samuel Lismann [sic], a tanner (Gerber), his wife Margaretha, and [step-]sons (Georg Michael [Bernhardt], age 19; Augustin Wilhelm [Bernhardt], age 17¼; Johann [Bernhardt], age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber. [See Bernhardt Family.]
Samuel Issmann [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Samuel Ismann, a locksmith (Schlosser), and his wife Margaretha Magdalena arrived in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 67 along with stepsons [surname Bernhardt] (Georg, age 18; August Martin, age 16; Johann Michael, age 13).
The death of Samuel Ismann in 1806 is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 87.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Samuel Ismann came from the German village of Breslau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Warenburg Census (Household No. 87).
- Funk, Wilhelm. "Deutsche a Is russische Colonisten: ausgezogen aus dem Wöhrder Traubuch 1766/67." Blätter für fränkische Familienkunde, 1:3 (1926): 101-107.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 271.
- 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): Wr087.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #767.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 332.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1967.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1540.
Brent Mai