Fei / Fey (Zürich)*

There are two Fey families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Philipp Peter Fey and his wife Philippina arrived in Oranienbaum.

Peter Fei, his wife Philipina, and widow Elisabt. are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both Philipina and Elisabt. died en route.

Peter is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (No.22) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies along with his new wife Maria and orphan Philipp Jakob Schlarf. No relationship between the Fey and Schlarf families is recorded on the 1767 census.

(2) Jakob Fey, his wife Barbara, and children (Susanna, age 16; Philipp, age 11; Charlotta, age 8) arrived in Oranienbaum. It is believed that the children are actually Barbara's by a previous marriage and that their surname should be Schlarf - Philipp being the Philipp Jakob Schlarf that is later recorded living with Philipp Peter Fey.

Jacob Frei, his wife Barbara, and children (Susanna, age 16¼; Philip, age 11; Charllotta, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Barbara and daughter Charllotta died en route.

Jakob remarried to Francisca, the widow of Ernst Wiegandt, but she also died. Jakob then married Charlotte with whom he is recorded on the 1767 census on a list of Bearuregard recruits (No. 23) along with the surviving children of Ernst Wiegandt.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Peter Fei came from the German village of Weißenhasel. The 1767 census records that Jakob Fei came from the German village of Meine.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Fei/Fey family among the Volga German colonies.