Johann Heinrich Zimmermann, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 11; Margaretha, age 8; Julianna, age 6; Christian, age 3; Katharina, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Heinrich Zimmermann, a farmer, his wife Eva, and daughters (Anna Margaretha, age 14; Anna Maria, age 10; Julianna, age 8; Katharina, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 72. They had settled there on 10 May 1767.
In 1789, Heinrich Zimmermann and his family moved from Kaneau to Schaffhausen.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Zimmermann came from the German region of Braunfels. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Zimmermann came from the German region of Güttin [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Zimmermann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 59-60.
- 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): Sh53, Mv1160.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 259.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #123.
Brent Mai