Klehmann (Kaneau)
Johann Gottfriedt Klemann [sic] & Anna Elisabeth Retz were married on 6 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Gottfried Klehmann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]son Johann [Retz] (age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Gottfried Klemann [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and [step-]son Johann Christoph [Retz] (age 15) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottfried Klehmann, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 34 along with her son from a previous marriage [surname Retz] (Christoph, age 16). They had settled in Kaneau on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Gottfried Klehmann came from the German region of Dessau.
- 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): Kn25.
- Mai, Brent Alan. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga, 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #4075-4076.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #897.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 251.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5044-5046.
Brent Mai