Fischer (Lauwe)*

Jakob Fischer, a chimney sweep, his wife Margaretha, and [step?-]children (Margaretha, age 15½; Karl, age 10; Friederika, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.

Jakob Fischer, a chimney sweep (Schornsteinfeger), and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 14 along with stepson Karl Raschler (age 12). They had settled in Lauwe on 19 August 1767.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Fischer came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Jakob Fischer came from the German village of Aurach.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Fischer family among the Volga German colonies.