Johann Frank, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Johann Franck [sic] and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Anna died in route.
Johann Frank, a farmer, and his [new] wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 42.
It is not known in which colony this Frank family settled.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Frank came from the German region of Bayreuth.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 271.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4595.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5516-5517.
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