Johann Riemler [sic], a physician, his wife Anna, and children (Regina, age 6; Christoph, age 4; Johann, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Michael Rümler, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Rosina Louissa, age 6; Jacob, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Anna Margaretha and daughter Rosina Louissa died en route.
Michael Rimer [sic], a physician (Arzt), his wife [new] Maria, and son Christoph (age 4) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 33.
In 1791, Jakob Remmler moved from Luzern to Zürich.
Jakob Remmler and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr33.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Rimer [sic] came from the German region of Nürnberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Remmler family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Zr33, Mv1622.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 329.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4581.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5503-5506.
Brent Mai