Johannes Thüringer, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Magdalena arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Johann Tharinger [sic] and his wife Magdalena are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Magdalena died in route.
Johannes Thüringer remarried to widow Louisa Wendler and settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28 along with the surviving Wendler children.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Thüringer came from the German village of Driern in the region of Trier.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 295, 296.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4609.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5913-1914.
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