Maria Ferstein [sic], maid to the Heinrich Hans family, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
Maria Fester [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with the Heinrich Gans [sic] family - all of whom died in route.
It is not known in which colony Maria settled.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ferstein/Fester [Feuerstein?] family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7112.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4598.
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