Johannes Felde, a farmer, married on 25 April 1766 in Büdingen to Gertrude Helfenbein. [See Helfenbein Family.]
Johann Felde, a farmer, and his wife Gertrude arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg along with Julianna Kinder who is identified as Johannes Felde's mother-in-law.
Johannes Felde evidently died, because Gertrude Helfenbein is recorded on the 1767 census of Kraft in Household No. 16 as the wife of Johann Schneider.
The Büdingen marriage record records that Johannes Felde came from the German village of Kleinmoor, northeast of Schlitz. The 1767 census records that Johann[es] Felde came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Felde family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 646.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #589.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 397.
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Brent Mai