Nikolaus Nungesser, a miller, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Pavel (St. Paul) under the command of the Lieutenant Fyedor Sornev.
Nikolaus Nungesser, a miller (Müller), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.
In 1795, Johannes Nungesser moved from Sewald to Seelmann.
Johannes Nungesser is recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm07.
Johannes Nungesser is recorded on the 1811 census of Seelmann in Household No. 7 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Dehler in 1799.
Johannes Nungesser and his son are recorded on the 1811 census of Dehler in Household No. 20 along with a note that they had arrived in Dehler from Seelmann in 1799.
Johannes Nungesser is recorded on the 1834 census of Dehler in Household No. 14.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Nungesser came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Nungesser came from the German village of Großheim in the Mainz region.
- 1811 Dehler Census (Household No. 20).
- 1811 Seelmann Census (Household No. 7).
- 1834 Dehler Census (Household No. 14).
- 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): 357.
- 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): Sm07, Mv2767.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008): 169.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2697.
Brent Mai