Michael Faschin, son of Johann Franz Faschin & Magdalena Weintraut, was born 18 November 1733 in Sulzdorf. He married on 16 July 1754 in Gaukönigshofen to Margaretha Oth, daughter of Christoph Oth & Ottilia Habermann. She had been born 3 September 1723 in Gaukönigshofen, southwest of Sulzdorf.
The births of 4 of their children are recorded on the parish register of Gaukönigshofen: (1) Johann Franz, born 13 January 1756; (2) Maria Barbara, born 9 June 1758; (3) Johann Martin, born 24 November 1759; and (4) Johann Georg, born 11 March 1762, died 21 May 1762.
[A note in the parish register of Gaukönigshofen records that Michael Fasching intended to immigrate to Cayenne (French Guiana).]
Michael Fasching, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Franz, age 20; Margin, age 9; Barbara, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Michael Farsching [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Michael Fasching, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Margaretha, and children (Franz, age 13; Barbara, age 10; Martinus, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 2. They had settled there on 15 July 1767.
Martin Fasching and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm13.
Martin Fasching and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Household No. 22.
The death of Martin Fasching in 1840 is recorded on the 1850 census of Seelmann in Household No. 30.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Fasching came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Michael Fasching came from the German village of Sulzdorf in the Würzburg region.
- 1834 Seelmann Census (Household No. 22).
- 1850 Seelmann Census (Household No. 30).
- Parish register of Gaukönigshofen.
- Parish register of Sulzdorf.
- 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): 294.
- 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): Sm13.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 149.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2150.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1559.
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