Johann Fischer [a] (age 39), a farmer from Gelnhausen, and his wife Elisabeth Lutz (age 35) arrived in St. Petersburg from Lübeck aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Marcau on 29 May 1773 along with his cousin [b] Philipp Fischer (age 65), a wool weaver.
[a] Johann Fischer (born about 1730), and his wife Margaretha Elisabeth Lutz are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml10.
[b] Philipp Fischer (born about 1705) is recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 109 with a note that he is from the colony of Müller. Philipp is recorded on the 1775 census with his grandson [probably son] Heinrich Fischer (born 1737-1739).
Johan Hinr. Fischer, a farmer from the area of Isenburg, & Catharina Reich from the area of Hessen-Darmstadt were married on 17 June 1766 in Pastor Bruns's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Heinrich Fischer, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Heinrich Fischer, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded in Norka on the 1767 census in Household No. 70.
Heinrich Fischer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johannes, age 6; Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 109.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 109).
- Ger-Volga-L on Rootsweb (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ger-volga/2009-11/1258657363).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ml10.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #246.
- Parish register of Gelnhausen.
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