Reinhard Uffelmann, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Reinhardt Offellmann and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Elisabeth died en route.
Reinhard Uffelmann, a farmer, and his wife [new] Christina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 115.
The movement tables attached to the 1767 census of Schönchen record the movement of Reinhard Opferman [sic] and his family in 1774 from Schönchen to St. Petersburg.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Reinhard Uffelmann came from France.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
[A number of document translations erroneously record this surname as Appelmann and Hufelmann.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Mv2596.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 224.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4533.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5749-5750.
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