Georg Lemmermann, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Johann Nikolaus (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
While in Kolomna en route to the colonies, a daughter named Anna Katharina was born on 13 March 1767 to Georg Lemmermann & Margaretha Kleinert.
Georg Lemmermann (age 46), a farmer, his wife Margaretha (age 33), and son Johann Nikolaus (age 21) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 33. They had arrived in Jost on 19 July 1767.
The widow and daughter of Nikolaus Lemmermann are recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo22.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Lemmermann came from the German region of Nürnberg. The 1767 census records that Georg Lemmermann came from the German village of Weiler in the Nürnberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 709.
- 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): Jo22.
- 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): #5669.
Brent Mai
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