Johann Feldbusch, a farmer, his wife Anna Gertruda, son Johann Peter (age 3), and sister Anna Margaretha (age 23) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Johannes Feldbusch, his wife Anna Gerdrutha [sic], and sister Anna Margaret. are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johannes died in route.
It is not know in which colony the surviving women settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Feldbusch came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Feldbusch family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5181.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1901-1903.
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