Sebastian von Junckheim (age 32), a hunter (Jäger), and his fiancée Elisabeth Keiffel (age 18) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 4 September 1765.
Sebastian Jungheim, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
The Joseph Jungheim family moved from Volmer to Streckerau before 1857.
The 1765 Worms list records that Sebastian von Junckheim came from the German village of Neustadt an d. Haard. The 1767 census records that Sebastian Jungheim came from the German village of Neustadt in the Kurpfalz region.
- 1857 Census of Streckerau.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 113 (#023-024).
- 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): Vm07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 288.
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