Hartmann Gottmann [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Hartmann Kauffmann and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Hartmann Kaufmann, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hartmann Gottmann [sic] came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Hartmann Kaufmann came from the German village of Müllersdorf.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kaufmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 503.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 263.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3951.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6012-6013.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list (#3951) recording the arrival in Russia of Hartmann Gottmann [Kauffmann] and his wife.
Source: Brent Mai.