Johann Heinrich Volmer, a farmer, and his wife Katharina Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 June 1766 aboard the Russian boat named Святой Павел (Saint Paul) under the command of Midshipman Fyodor Sornev.
Heinrich Volmer and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 62.
In 1797, Johann Kaspar Volmer moved from Beideck to Krasnoyar.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Volmer came from the German village of Angersbach.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 63).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Bd84, Ks060, Mv0232.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2232.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival of Johann Heinrich Volmer and his family in Russia.
Source: Brent Mai.
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