Johann Dahler [sic], his wife Franziska, and children (Marianna, age 17½; Bonifacius, age 4; Georg, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Frei Gebruder under the command of Skipper Minzberger.
Johann Doehler [sic], his wife Francisca, and children (Maria Anna, age 21; Bonifacius, age 4; Georg, age 1½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Dächler, a farmer, his wife Maria Franziska, and children (Maria, age 18; Bonifacius, age 5; Georg, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 51. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Dahler came from the German region of Bruzal [?]. The 1767 census records that Johann Dächler came from the village of Lacorom [?] in the Alsace region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this 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): 730.
- Oranienbaum passenger list (#5841) [not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 159.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6580-6584.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list (#5841) recording the arrival in Russia Johann Dehler and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.