Johann Frank, his wife Appolonia (a midwife [Hebamme]), and children (Dorothea, age 17; Anna Katharina, age 15; Friedrich Christoph age 13; Johann Heinrich, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 71 along with a note that the father Johann died on 26 September 1767. They had arrived in Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 September 1767.
The 1767 census records that Appolonia Frank came from the German town of Kiel.
[There is a Johann Frank, a butcher, his wife Appol[onia], and children (Susanna, age 19; Dorothea, age 17¼; Katharina, age 13; Johann, age 10¼; Erhard, age 5¼; Heinrich, age 2) that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Johann Frank came from the region of Fochtlandia.]
There are no known surviving male lines of this Frank family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 121.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 219, 220.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #687.
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