Johann[es] Rückmesser [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina [Ackermann], mother Margaretha, sister Elisabeth, niece Katharina, and sister-in-law Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. [See Ackermann Family.]
Joh. Rückmesser and his wife Catharina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with sister-in-law Margar. Neckermann [probably Ackermann] and the widow Elisabeth Ruckmesser [sic] and her daughter Margaretha (age 2¼).
Johannes Richmeier [sic], a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 73) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies along with the orphan Maria Katharina Ackermann (age 13).
Between 1816 and 1834, Johannes Rickenmesser [sic] and his family moved from Luzern to Wittmann where he died in 1820.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Rückmesser came from the German region of Mainz. The Beauregard list records that Johannes Richmesser came from the German village of Ober-Mörlen in the Mainz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 690-691.
- 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): Lz04.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 363.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5490.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3739-3741, 3750-3751.
Brent Mai