Michael Feierling, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
Michael Feuerling and his wife Catarina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 1 July 1767. Michael died there on 21 September 1767 and his widow is recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 48.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Feierling came from the German region of Nürnberg while the 1767 census records that widow Katharina Feierling came from the German region of Kurmainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 277.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3599.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2520-2521.
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