Blasius Faller, a single miller (Müller), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 194.
Blasius Faller, his wife Sophia Dorothea née Wogau, and children (Johann Karl, age 6; Christian, age 3; Katharina Christiana Kunigunda, age 7-months) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 9. [See Wogau Family.]
The 1767 census records that Blasius Faller came from the German region of Freiburg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Blasius Faller came from the German region of Frankfurt am Main and that his wife came from the German region of Anhalt-Zerbst.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 9).
- 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): Ka008.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 316.
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