Friedrich Fuhrmann, his wife Susanna, and children (Franz, age 12; Johann, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of the Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
Friderich Fuhrmann, his wife Susanna, and sons (Frantz, age 12; Johannes, age 10) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Susanna andson Johannes died en route.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 135 along with his new wife Elisabeth and her children (Jakob Schnell, age 17; Izeisola [?], age 15).
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Fuhrmann came from the German village of Halberstadt in the Brandenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 305.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7091.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3923-3926.
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