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Führ

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Führ
Фиръ
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Peter Tiur [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.

Johann Peter Führ, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 69.

The widow and children of Peter Führ are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr059.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Tiur [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Führer came from the German village of Langenhain in the Darmstadt region.

Sources

- 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): .
- 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): Wr059.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 332.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1174.

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Brent Mai

Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Peter Tiur [sic] and his wife.
Source: Brent Mai.

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