Johann Moritz Klamm was baptized in Wolfenhausen on 20 June 1728. He and his wife Anna Elizabetha had three children according to the Wolfenhausen parish records: (1) Maria Sophia, baptized 12 May 1754; (2) Elisabeth, baptized 18 August 1758; and (3) Johann Philipp, baptized 25 January 1761.
Mauritius [sic] Klamm, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Sophia, age 13; Christina, age 8; Johann Philipp, age 5; Maria Dorothea, age 1) 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.
Moritz Klum [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. Ludwig [sic] Klamm, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Maria Sophia, age 12; Johann Philipp, age 6) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 157 along with a foster-daughter (Pflegetochter) Elisabeth (age 9). It is unclear why Elisabeth would be recorded as a foster-daughter.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mauritius [sic] Klamm came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that Ludwig [sic] Klamm came from the German village of Wolfenhausen in the region of Runkel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Klamm family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 273.
- Parish register of Wolfenhausen (LDS Film #1195145).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 345.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1983.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1752.
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