Andreas Sommer, a single man, 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.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 26 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 134. A note on the 1767 census of Brabander indicates that Andreas Sommer moved to the colony of Seelmann in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Sommer came from the German region of Böhmen. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Milisin in Böhmen (Bohemia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sommer family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 401.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 242.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3090.
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