Kermig
An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following:
Christoph Kermigk [sic], a single candidate for communion (Katechet) from Siebenhausen (p. 90) from Sollnitz (p. 94), born in Retzau. He is a brother-in-law of Christian Saalmann.
Christian Jeremias Kermig, a teacher? (Priester), and his wife Margaretha Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No 49.
In 1770, Jeremias Kermig left Urbach.
The 1767 census records that Christoph [sic] Jeremias Kermig came from the German village of Retzau in the Dessau region.
- 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): Mv2890.
- 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): #1099.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 281.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3261.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 90, 94.
Brent Mai