There are three Naumann families from the German village of Sterzhausen that settled among the Volga German colonies. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johannes Naumann, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Orast [Horst?], age 6; Johann, age 4; Elisabeth, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Johannes Naumann, a farmer, his [new] wife Maria, children (Johannes, age 5; Elisabeth, age 3), and step-children (Anna [Kugel], age 8; Elisabeth [Kugel], age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Cäsarsfeld in Household No. 3. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Naumann came from the German village of Sterzhausen.
(2) Johannes Naumann and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johannes Naumann, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Elisabeth (age 2-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Cäsarsfeld in Household No. 7. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka126.
The 1767 census records that this Johannes Naumann also came from the German village of Sterzhausen.
(3) Konrad Naumann, his wife Dorothea, and sons (Adam, age 15; Johann, age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Konrad Naumann and his wife Katharina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Konrad Naumann, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and sons (Adam, age 16; Johannes, age 13) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 43. They may have settled in Cäsarsfeld since several other families on this appendix settled in Cäsarsfeld.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Naumann came from the German village of Sterzhausen.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 849, 862, 885.
- 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): Ka126.
- Oranienbaum passenger list (#6884 - not included in the Kuhlberg List by Igor Pleve).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 204, 244, 245.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7008, #7232.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4251-4252.
Brent Mai
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