Worms Village Website
Although printed in German, Dr. Karl Stumpp has a different list of pioneer settlers which includes the ages of the Colonists upon their arrival and the names of wives and children. Some of the names are duplicates of Height's list but some are entirely new. The date at the beginning of the entry "angekommen" is the date of their arrival in Russia or at the village if it already existed. For example, (see below) George Fischer was 37. He was from Neckartailfingen, Wurttemberg; his wife "frau" was named Katharina, also age 37. His stepdaughter "Stieftochter" Margareta Winterrot came from Bammental Bavaria and Sibilla was 10.
Georg Buhler, entry number 2 above had a son Michael (20) from his first wife . The stepchildren "Stiefkinder" from his second wife included Adam Schwarz, Slomea Schwarz and Katherina Schwarz. Keep in mind that when looking for ancestral surnames the spelling was often changed or varied from how the name may be spelled today. An example is, Ehly, Ehli, or Ely.
The data is not always accurate. For example, personal family records and Joseph Height indicate that entry 46, Heinrich Gries came from the Rhine-Pfalz, from the village of Edenkoben, not from Daisbach Bavaria.
Karl Stumpp, The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the years 1763 to 1862,
(Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans From Russia, 1973) pp. 805-808
Records indicate that four families came from Edenkoben, Pfalz and settled in Worms in 1809. They were the families of Johannes Meyer, Nickolaus Ochsner, Karl Roemmich, and Heinrich Gries.4 I visited Edenkoben in the summer of 2007 and took pictures of that village which are shown in this website
4Heinrich is Jim's great-great-great- grandfather.
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