Johann Georg Faber, a daylaborer (Tagelöhner), his wife Elisabeth Dorothea immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) in 1762 along with their children: (1) Johann Christoph, age 22, and his wife Susanna Katharina; (2) Johann Christian, age 11; and (3) Katharina Magdalena, age 4.
They arrived in Flensburg on 9 June 1762. Johann Georg died in 1763-1764. His son Johann Christoph and his wife Susanna Katharina petitioned to leave the Danish colonies on 1 May 1765 and joined the migration to Russia.
Widow Elisabeth Faber and her children (Christian, age 16; Katharina, age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 3 June 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Christoph Faber, a farmer, his wife Susanna Katharina, and daughter Elisabeth Katharina (age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 20. They had settled there on 21 July 1766.
The daughter Katharina Elisabeth [sic] Faber is recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh004 as the wife of Friedrich Altergott.
Christoph's sister Katharina Magdalena Faber is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb33 as the wife of Heinrich Lieder and widow of Peter Simon.
The Eichhorns record that Johann Georg Faber was from the German village of Neckargartach bei Heilbronn. The 1767 census records that Christoph Faber came from the German region of Heilbronn.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Faber family among the Volga German colonies.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-360, B-361.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga Vol. 1 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dh004, Lb33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 1999): 346.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #649.
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