Zimmer (Kaneau)
Johann Zimmer and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 May 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Geier.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 75.
In 1786, Konrad Zimmer and his family moved from Kaneau to Biberstein.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Zimmer was a weaver while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The 1767 census records that Johann Konrad Zimmer came from the German village of Villingen in the region of Braunfels.
- 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): Bb35, Mv1147.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 260.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #128.
Brent Mai