According to his memoirs of schoolmaster Johann Georg Möhring, while in route to Russia, his sister-in-law Barbara Stöslin von Stadling married in Magdeburg to druggist Andreas Dalfuss who had been born in the village of Znaim in Moravia.
Andreas Dalfuss, his wife Barbara, and the Johann Georg Möhring family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Andreas Dallafus [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Dalfuss (age 30), a druggist (Apotheker), his wife Barbara (age 24), daughter Justianna (age 1), and mother-in-law Anna [Stöslin] (age 68) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 17. They had arrived in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.
The Möhring memoirs record that on 24 October 1774, the Kyrgyz raided the colony and Andreas Dalfuss, his wife, and daughters were taken captive.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Dalfuss came from Mähren (Moravia). The 1767 census records that Andreas Dalfuss came from the German village of Znaim in Moravia.
- Memoirs of Johann Georg Möhring [online]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 269.
- 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): Pf80, Mv2713.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 152.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1938.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1518.
Brent Mai