Anton Frohndorf, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pinkom.
Joh. Anthon [sic] Trohndorff [sic] and his wife Rosina [sic] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Anton Friesendorf [sic], a gardner (Gärtner), and his wife Maria are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 70) that is appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Trohndorf [sic] came from Austria. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Halsberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 363.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4443.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5706-5707.
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