Joseph Kamm & Barbara Zimmer were married on 22 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Joseph Kom [sic], a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Joseph Kamm, his wife Barbara (died in route), and son Daniel (born & died in route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 15 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 79.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Kähm came from the German region of Schwaben (Swabia) while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Hillelhofen [?] in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kamm family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 729.
- 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): #985.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 77.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5828.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6577-6579.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list (#5828) recording the arrival in Russia of Joseph Kom [sic] and his wife Barbara.
Source: Brent Mai.