Johann Friedrich Friederichsen & Anna Eleonora Dourothea Margaretha Weinberg were married on 1 June 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann Friedrichsen, his wife Anna, and wife's sister Anna (age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johan Fried. Friedrichsen, his wife Anna Eleonora, and wife's sister Maria Wilhelmina Weinberg are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Friedrich Friedrichsen (age 23), a button maker (Knopfmacher), his wife Anna Weinberg (age 21), and sister-in-law Anna Maria Weinberg (age 18) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 4 which includes a note that Johann Friedrich Friedrichsen and his wife settled in the colony of Bettinger in 1768 and that Anna Maria Weinberg settled in the colony of Biberstein. [See Weinberg Family.]
Anna Dorothea Weinberg from Bettinger is recorded on the 1798 census of Susannental in Household No. Ss07 married to Franz Schmidt.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Friedrichsen came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Tagloners near Oberwittighausen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Friederichsen 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): 601.
- 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): Ss07.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #3946-3947.
- 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): #71.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 324.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4803.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4915-4917.
Brent Mai