Johann Pfeifer married Katharina Popp. She had been born 9 July 1725 in Heßdorf.
The birth of the following daughter of Johann Pfeifer & Katharina Popp is recorded in the parish register of Höllrich: Katharina, born 10 December 1752.
Johann Pfeifer, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Anna [Katharina], age 16; Johann [Kaspar], age 12; Susanna, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
Johann died after arrival in Russia, and his widow Katharina Pfeifer née Popp remarried to Michael Krutsch. [See Krutsch Family.]
Kaspar Pfeifer (age 13) and his sister Katharina (age 17) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 38 along with his mother and stepfather Michael Krutsch. [See Krutsch Family.] They had arrived in Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Pfeifer came from the German region of Dienheim.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 391.
- 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): Sk12, Sk21.
- Parish register of Höllrich.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 200.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2995.
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