Nikolaus Fisch, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Chasselois on 2 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3.
Following the destruction of Chasselois, the Fisch family relocated to the colony of Herzog.
Nikolaus Fisch and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Herzog in Household No. Hr21.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Fisch came from the French village of Montain.
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): Hr21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 250.
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