Valentin Zimmermann, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Julianna, age 23; Konrad, age 21; Elisabeth, age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 on a ship under the command of Hans Karholm.
Valentin Zimmermann, his wife Catharina Elisabeth, and children (Juliana, age 21; Conrad, age 20) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Konrad Zimmermann, a wool carder (Wollschläger), and his wife Julianna settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 23 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 91 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Luzern in 1768.
Julianna Zimmermann is recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm40 along with her husband Heinrich Sommer and family.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Zimmermann came from the German region of Trier.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Zimmermann family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Wm40.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 309.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7086.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6865-6868.
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