Christian Faust, a miller (Müller), his wife Charlotta, and their children (Katharina, age 13; Elisabeth, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Christian Faust, his wife Charlotta, and daughter (Catharina, age 13; Elisabeth, age 9½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Elisabeth died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767 where Christian Faust is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 124 along with his new wife Anna and surviving daughter Katharina.
Christian Faust, a miller (Müller), his wife Maria [surname not recorded], son Johannes (age 7), and step-sons (Johann Michael Fleisch, age 17; Jakob Fleisch, age 16) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 33. [See Fleisch Family.]
The 1767 census records that Christian Faust came from the German village of Alsfeld in the Hessen region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Christian Faust came from the German village of Bodenar [?] in the Hessen region and that his wife and step-sons came from the German village of Konholsdorf in the Hessen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Faust family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 33).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 868.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 303.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7066.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3880-3883.
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