Johannes Leÿhmann, son of Johannes & Anna Maria Leÿhmann, was born 24 February 1730 in Angenrod and baptized 26 February 1730.
Johannes Leÿhmann married on 7 September 1752 to Anna Maria Geißel, daughter of Johannes Geißel from Nieder-Breidenbach.
Johannes Leÿhmann and Anna Maria Geißel had six children, each born in Angenrod: (1) Elisabetha, born 7 August 1753, baptized 9 August 1753, died 25 April 1754, buried 26 April 1754; (2) Johannes, born 12 September 1755, baptized 14 September 1755, died 16 February 1757, buried 17 February 1757; (3) Johann Heinrich, born 23 March 1758, baptized 26 March 1758, died 19 July 1761, buried 21 July 1761; (4) Johannes, born 9 September 1760, baptized 14 September 1760; (5) Johann Heinrich, born 4 February 1764, baptized 6 February 1764, died 30 December 1764, buried 1 January 1765; and (6) Johann Nicolaus, born 15 November 1765, baptized 17 November 1765.
Johannes Lehmann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann[es] (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
Johannes Leimann [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and son Johannes (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 18. They had arrived in Müller on 16 August 1767.
Widower Johann Lehmann and his sons are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml30.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Lehmann came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Zell [a few kilometers south of Angenrod].
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- 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): Ml30.
- Parish register of Billertshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 179.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2893.
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