Joseph Russmann, a farmer, and his wife Edit arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
Joseph Russmann and his unnamed wife settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 11 August 1767. This unnamed wife died on 20 September 1767.
Joseph Russmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn17.
Joseph Russmann and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 17.
The death of Joseph Russmann in 1820 is recorded on the 1834 census of Brabander in Household No. 15.
Kaspar Russmann, presumed son of Joseph Russmann, and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn48.
Kaspar Russmann is recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 48.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Russmann came from the German region of Schwaben (Swabia). The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Altoberndorf in the Schwaben (Swabia) region.
- 1811 Brabander Census (Households No. 17, 48).
- 1834 Brabander Census (Households No. 15, 78).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 399.
- 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): Bn17, Bn48.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 239.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3068.
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