Adam Hermann Fech, son of Johann Adam Fech & Anna Maria Koch, was baptized in Düdelsheim on 1 December 1735.
He married there on 30 August 1764 to Anna Elisabeth Raab, daughter of Johannes & Anna Maria Raab. Anna Elisabeth had been baptized in Düdelsheim on 4 July 1745.
Hermann Fecht, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Charlotta (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 June 1766 aboard a boat named Северный Орел (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Peter Malenkov.
Hermann Fecht, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughters (Anna Charlotta, age 3; Anna Katharina, age 3-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 50 along with Elisabeth Raab's parents.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hermann Fecht came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Düdelsheim in the Isenburg region.
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