Philipp Neumann and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 8 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
The 1798 census of Kutter (Household No. Kt30) records that Eberhart Neumann is working as a tailor in Straub.
Eberhard Neimann from Kutter is recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 65 along with a note that he had arrived in Straub from Kutter in 1801.
The death of Eberhard Neimann in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Straub in Household No. 81.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Neumann was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
The 1767 census records that Philipp Neumann came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 65).
- 1834 Straub Census (Household No. 81).
- 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): Kt30, Kt69.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 477.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3227.
Brent Mai