Jeremias Strasser, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, children (Johann, age 5¼; Maria, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks along with their servant Katharina [surname not recorded] (age 30).
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 11 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jeremias Strasser came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Jeremias Strasser came from the German village of Pamortal in the Kurpfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Strasser family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 452.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 274.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3521.
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