The parish register of the Reformed Church of Saints Peter & Paul in Danzig records that Johannes Fuhr from the Pfalz & Anna Maria Ottilia Philipp from the Pfalz, the daughter of the deceased Henrich Philipp, were married on 1 February 1766 in Danzig.
Johannes Fuhr, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
They are believed to have settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach because many other families on this ship settled in Hussenbach.
Margaretha Fuhr, the wife of Johann Heinrich Schilling, is recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach. She is believed to be the daughter of Johannes Fuhr.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Fuhr came from the German region of Pfalz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- 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): Hs131.
- 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): #764.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #36.
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