Zimmermann (Warenburg)
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Zimmermann (Warenburg)
Цимерманъ (Warenburg)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Konrad Zimmermann, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 61.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Zimmermann came from the German village of Rosbach in the Darmstadt region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 330.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2022.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai