Johann Pecher, a blacksmith, his wife Elisabeth, mother[-in-law] Anna [Block], and sisters-in-law (Anna [Block], age 17; Gertruda [Block], age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Goerg Pecher and his wife Elisabetha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widow Anna Block and her daughters (Elisabet [sic], age 18; Gerdrut [sic], age 15) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Pecher came from the German region of Runkel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Pecher family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5422.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3211-3213, #3470-3471.
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