Heinrich Fichtel, his wife Ursula, and son Georg (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Heinrich Fichtel, his wife Ursula, and son Johann Georg (age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Fichtel, his [new] wife Barbara, and son Georg (age 11) settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Fichtel was a miller from Würzberg. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Fichtel was a farmer from the German village of Geiselwind in the region of Schwarzenberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 112.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6171.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7702-7704.
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