Jakob Fischer, a chimney sweep, his wife Margaretha, daughters (Margaretha, age 15½; Friederika, age 5¼), and [step-]son Karl [Raschler] (age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Karl Raschler (age 12) is recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 14 along with his stepfather Jakob Fischer. They had settled in Lauwe on 19 August 1767.
The 1767 census does not record from where Karl Raschler came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Raschler family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 336.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 40.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2492.
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