Christoph Fritz, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Wilhelm, age 4; Eva, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Christoph Fritz, his [new?] wife Christina, and children (Wilhelm, age 4¼; Elisabeth, age 2¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Christoph died in route.
It is not known in which colony this Fritz family settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Fritz came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fritz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 502.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3942.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6032-6035.
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