Mattias Felber, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
He is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits attached to the 1767 census in Household No. 149 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Schönchen in 1768.
Mattias Felber and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn34.
The 1767 census records that Mattias Felber came from the German village of Beimbach in Bayern (Bavaria).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Sn34.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 378.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4626.
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