Michael Fiesbach [sic] and his wife Anna [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
The Fischbach family has not been located on the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
Widow Margaretha [sic] Fischbach and her children (Peter, age 8; Johannes, age 5; Christina, age 3) are recorded on the 1775 census of Kamenka in Household 60 along with her new husband Johannes Dorndecker [sic].
In 1790, Peter and Johannes Fischbach moved from Kamenka to Seelmann.
Peter Fischbach from Kamenka and his family (along with his brother Johannes) are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann from Household No. Sm09.
The death of Peter Fischbach in 1834 is recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Household No. 61.
The sons of Johannes Fischbach are recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Households No. 6 & 88.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Fiesbach [sic] came from the German region of Solms.
- 1775 Kamenka Census (Household No. 63).
- 1834 Seelmann Census (Households No. 6, 61, 88).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 855.
- 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): Sm09, Mv1095.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6782.
Brent Mai