Klamm (Warenburg-1)*

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 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.

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.