Franz Joseph Mader, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27. Susanna Stieber (age 10), the orphan daughter of Peter Stieber, is also recorded in Household No. 27. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Mader and Stieber families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Joseph Mader was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a book binder (Buchbinder).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Joseph Mader came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Franz Joseph Mader came from the German village of Barpach [?] near Fetzburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 747.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 221.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5970.
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