Peter Fink and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Kronverk under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin.
Peter Fink and his wife Anna Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Grimm and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52.
Peter Fink and his wife Dorothea are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 129.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Fink was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Peter Fink came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 129).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 80.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2724.
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