Heinrich Tressehler, a turner, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Heinrich Trössehler and his wife Margaretha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Heinrich died en route.
It is not known in which colony the widow Trössehler settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Tressehler came from the German region of Kuburg [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of of this Tressehler family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4745.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4956-4957.
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