Christoph Kummer, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Joh. Christian [sic] Kummer, his wife Johanna Elisabeth, and daughter Joh. Christina (born in route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that newborn daughter Joh. Christina also died in route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 87 along with orphan Christoph Handorf (age 9). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Kummer and Handorf families.
In 1787, widow Anna Elisabeth Kummer moved from Boisroux to marry Mattias Riel in Beauregard. She also took her children.
Kummer descendants are recorded on the 1834 census of Beauregard in Households No. 50 and 53.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Kummer came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Halle in the Brandenburg region.
- 1834 Beauregard Census (Households No. 50, 53).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 560.
- 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): Bo08, Mv0317.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 160.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4401.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5442-5444.
Brent Mai