Andreas Zimmermann, a farmer, and his wife Anna aarrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Andreas Zimermann [sic] and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Zimmermann came from the German region of Bamberg.
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): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4604.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5889-5890.
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