Thomä (Kamenka)*
Peter Thoma, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 20 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 87 along with his new wife Barbara.
The death of Peter Dome is noted on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 210, but the year is not recorded.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Thoma came from the German region of Schönberg while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Schwarzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Household No. 210).
- 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): Km008.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 238.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1670.
Brent Mai