Johann Fiedler, a single miller, and Johann [again] Fiedler, 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.
Johannes Fiedler and his brother Conrad are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Konrad Fiedler, a single farmer (age 21), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 126.
Johann Fiedler, a single farmer (age 23), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 127.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that these Fiedler men came from the German region of Darmstadt. Igor Plehve's publication of the 1767 census records that they came from the German village of Vadenrod.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fiedler family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 225.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4669, #4678.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6912-6913.
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