Documents record two Friedrich Emerichs affiliated with the colony of Biberstein. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Friedrich Emerich, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Friderich Emmerich [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Friedrich Emerich, a single stocking weaver (Strumpfwirker), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 53 along with a note that he relocated to the Volga German colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Emerich came from the German village of Rothein [?].
(2) Friedrich Emrich [sic], a 12-year-old orphan, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 71 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that this Friedrich Emrich came from the German region of Dresden.
There are no known surviving male lines of either of these Emerich families among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 875.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 174.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 215.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7135.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3993.
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