Andreas Neumann, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Katharina Margaretha, age 12; Susanna Margaretha, age 9; Maria Elisabeth, age 6; Johann Konrad, age 3-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Katharina, widow of Andreas Neumann, and her daughters (Susanna Margaretha, age 18; Anna Katharina, age 7; Maria Katharina, age 4-weeks) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 66.
Katharina [sic] Margaretha Neumann, wife of Friedrich Vorbach, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd63.
[Anna] Katharina Neumann, wife of Martin Pabst, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd86.
Maria Katharina Neumann, wife of Johann Ludwig Köhler, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd52.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Neumann came from the German region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Neumann family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Beideck Census (Household No. 66).
- 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): 517.
- 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): Bd52, Bd63, Bd86
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4065.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Andreas Neumann and his family (#4065).
Source: Brent Mai.