Leonhard Wittmann, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Anna, and his sister Anna (age 21) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
Leonhard Wittmann, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Holstein in Household No. 35. They had arrived in Holstein on 7 July 1767.
Leonhard Wittmann [erroneously recorded as Wiedemann] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Holstein in Household No. Ho06.
The 1857 census of Holstein records that Christoph Wittmann moved from Holstein to Rosenberg in 1852.
Christoph Wittmann from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg.
Georg Adam Wittmann from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Eckheim.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Leonhard Wittmann came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Leonhard Wittmann came from the German village of Nelzinei (?) near Darmstadt.
- 1834 Holstein Census (Households No. 4, 60).
- 1850 Holstein Census (Households No. 100, 101).
- 1857 Eckheim Census.
- 1857 Holstein Census (Households No. 6, 114).
- 1857 Rosenberg Census.
- 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): 375.
- 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): Ho06, Ho22.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 134.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2844.
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Leonhard Wittmann, his wife, and his sister.
Source: Brent Mai.