Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Bofsheim, Osterburken, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Description
Johann Adam Gramlich was born in Bofsheim (southeast of Buchen Odenwald; today in Baden-Württemberg) on 4 March 1748. He married Anna Eva (surname unknown). They immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) before immigrating to Russia.
Adam Gramlich and his new wife Maria Barbara (surname unknown) arrived at the port in Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the Russian galliot "Tisitadel" along with daughter Anna Dorothea (age 4).
Adam is recorded on the 1798 census in the colony of Schilling in Household No. Sg006.
Sources
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga .
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 331.
Researchers
Gerhard Lang