The parish register of Geiselbach records the marriage on 15 November 1752 of Willibald Frick, son of Bernard Frick of Sch...?, to Anna Maria Thomä, daughter of Johannes Adam Thomä of Hofstädten.
The parish register of Geiselbach records the baptisms of the following children born in Hofstädten to Willibald Frick & Anna Maria Thomä: (1) Maria Barbara, baptized 19 February 1754; (2) Michael, baptized 26 August 1756; (3) Michael, baptized 7 May 1758; (4) Margaretha, baptized 26 July 1759; and (5) Gertruda, baptized 20 March 1766.
Willibald [sic] Frick, a carpenter (Tischler), his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Anna Maria (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Willibald Frick came from the German region of Schönborn. The 1767 census records that Wilbold Frick came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 488.
- 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): Kl56.
- Parish register of Geiselbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 370.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3823.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Geiselbach recording the marriage of Willibald Frick and Anna Maria Thomä on 15 November 1752.
Source: Anonymous2.
Entry from the parish register of Geiselbach recording the baptism of Maria Barbara Frick on 19 February 1754.
Source: Anonymous2.