Johann Heinrich Klemm, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Rachel Sophia and children (Gottfried, age 5; Wilhelmina, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
The parish register of Schilling records the birth of Johann Georg Heinrich Klemme [sic], son of Johann Heinrich Klemme & Rachel Sophia Krüger, on 19 March 1767 in Kolomna while en route to the colonies.
Johann Heinrich Klemm (age 38), a tailor (Schneider), his wife Rachel Sophia (age 28), and children (Gottfried August, age 6; Wilhelmina Elisabeth, age 5; Johann Georg, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 31. They had arrived in Jost on 19 July 1767.
In 1790, August Klemm moved from Jost to Kukkus.
In 1795, Christian Klemm moved from Jost to Anton.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Klemm came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Klemm came from the German village of Leipzig in the Sachsen (Saxony) region.
- 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): 752.
- 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): An28, Kk26, Mv1079, Mv1082.
- Parish register of Schilling.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 202.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6012.
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