Johann Heinrich Fisser, a ropemaker, his wife Christina Elisabeth, and daughters (Johanna Dorothea, age 10½; Christina Elisabeth, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Johann Heinrich Fisser died, and his widow remarried to Johann Joachim Pickener. Johann Pickener, his [new] wife Christina Elisabeth [widow of Johann Heinrich Fisser], daughter (Johanna Elisabeth, age ½), and [step-]daughter Johanna Dorothea [Fisser] (age 9½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. [See Pickener Family.]
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Fisser came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fisser family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 664.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5277 (p.338).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2495-2498.
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