Peter Wohn, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Katharina (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
Brothers Christian & Peter Wohn, sons of Peter Wohn, are recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt14 along with a note that Christian Wohn is working in the colony of Semenovka.
Brothers Christian & Peter Wohn are recorded on the 1811 census of Rothammel in Household No. 14 along with a note that Peter Wohn relocated to the colony of Kamenka.
Georg Wohn is recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 211 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Pfeifer.
Johann Georg Wohn from Kamenka is recorded on the 1834 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 164.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Wohn came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that Peter Wohn came from the German village of Villmar in the Trier region.
- 1811 Rothammel Census (Household No. 14).
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Household No. 211).
- 1834 Pfeifer Census (Household No. 164).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 736.
- 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): Rt14.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 83.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5890.
Brent Mai