Widower Gerhard Froschhauer & Susanna Trapp were married on 23 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Gerhard Froschhauer, a farmer, his wife [Maria] Susanna [Trapp], mother-in-law Anna Katharina, and sister-in-law Magdalena Trapp arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink named Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 81.
In 1793, Johann Peter Froschhauer moved from Köhler to Volmer.
Susanna Trapp is recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl27 along with her new husband Johann Nikolaus Freiberger.
Peter Froschhauer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm33.
The death of Peter Froschhauer in 1832 is recorded on the 1834 census of Volmer in Household No. 31.
The 1767 census records that Gerhard Froschhauer came from the German village of Steinheim in the Mainz region.
- 1834 Volmer Census (Household No. 31).
- 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): Kl27, Vm33, Mv1327.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #572.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 380.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4202.
Brent Mai
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