Scharrmann*

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Scharrmann*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Christoph [sic] Scharrmann, a farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Caspar Scharrmann is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Kaspar Scharrmann, a farmer, and his wife Friederika settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Kaspar Scharmann came from the German region of Darmstadt.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 194.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4435.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5412.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies