Christian Fahrenbrug [sic], a farmer, his wife Johanna Margaretha, and daughters (Johanna Margaretha, age 9; Elisabeth, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
Johann Christian Fahrenbrug [sic], his wife Johanna Margreta, and daughters (Joh. Sophia Elisabeth, age 10; Elisabeth, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov.
Christian Fahrenbruch is next recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk098.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Fahrenbrug [sic] came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
- 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): 701.
- 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): Fk098.
- 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): #365-368.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5598.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2236-2239.
Brent Mai