Johann Peter Fehlinger, son of Johann Peter Fehlinger (1689-1764) & Maria Christina Vogel (1594-1755), was born 14 February 1722 and baptized on 18 February 1722 in Simmern Kirn.
He married his first wife [name unknown] in 1747.
The births of the following children born to Johann Peter Vehlinger & his first unnamed wife are recorded in the parish register of Mandel: (1) Johann Philipp; (2) Maria Christina.
Johann Peter Vehlinger married on 27 April 1759 in the Evangelische Kirche of Mandel to Anna Katharina Opp, daughter of Philipp Wendell Opp.
The births of the following children born to Johann Peter Vehlinger & Anna Katharina Opp have been recorded in the parish register of Mandel: (1) Anna Katharina Margreta, born 1 July 1761, baptized 19 July 1761; (2) Elisabeth Margretha, born 27 April 1759, baptized 1 May 1759; and (3) Maria Margreta, born 27 April 1764, baptized 1 May 1764.
Peter Fellinger, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann [Philipp], age 17¼; Maria [Christina], age 13; Elisabeth [Margaretha], age 8; Maria [Margaretha], age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Peter Vellinger, his wife Catharina, and children (Philip, age 18; Maria Apollonia, age 14; Margaretha, age 8; Elisabetha, age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Elisabetha died en route.
Peter Fellinger, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna, and children (Johann [Philipp], age 18 [not 12]; Maria Christina, age 14; Johann Heinrich, age 1-month) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 81. They had arrived in Kaneau on 3 August 1767.
Peter Fellinger (age 33), a cobbler (Schuster), his wife Katharina [surname not recorded] (age 41), and children (Elisabeth, age 17; Johann, age 7; Heinrich, age 4; Gottlieb Daniel, age 1) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 117 along with a note that daughter Elisabeth married Samuel Gutjahr.
Peter Fellinger from Kaneau, his wife Katharina Opp, and family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka107 along with a note that son Johann Georg Fellinger is working in Kaneau.
In 1786, son Philipp Fellinger and his family moved from Kaneau to Schäfer.
Philipp Fellinger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schäfer in Household No. Sf13.
The 1857 census of Rosental records in Household No. 10 that Christoph Fellinger and his family had arrived in Rosental from Beauregard.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Fellinger came from the German region of Kreutzen [Kreuznach]. The 1767 census records that Peter Fellinger came from the German village of Mangen [Mandel] in the Kreutzen [Kreuznach] region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Family Register records that Peter Fellinger came from the village of Sinner an der Dunai Rhein, that his wife came from the German village of Grafschaft, and that his oldest children were born in Mandel in the region of Pfalz.
[Some translators/transcribers have erroneously recorded this surname as Wellinger.]
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 117).
- 1850 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 177, 413, 414).
- 1857 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 198, 440, 441).
- 1857 Rosental Census (Household No. 10).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 685-686.
- 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): Ka107, Sf13, Mv1139.
- Parish register of Mandel.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 262.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5446.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3197-3202.
Brent Mai
V. Rau (Wolgadeutsche.net Forum)
Immigrated to the following locations
Entry from the parish register of Mandel recording the marriage in 1758 of Johann Peter Vehlinger and Anna Katharina Opp, daughter of Philipp Wendel Opp.
Source: V. Rau.