Herrmann Wolf, a bookbinder (Buchbinder), his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 15¼; Elisabeth, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Herrmann Wolf, his wife Katharina, and daughter Sophia (age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 73. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Herrmann Wolf came from the German region of Hamburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wolf family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 383.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 211.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2922.
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