Three Fischer families arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov. Their relationship to each other, except in the ways described, requires further research.
(1) Konrad Fischer (born about 1735), a single farmer, arrived in Oranienbaum.
Konrad Fischer, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria are recorded in Norka on the 1767 census in Household No. 67 along with stepchildren with the surname Hessler [erroneously recorded as Ifland] (Christina Elisabeth, age 18; Anna Margaretha, age 13; Georg Wilhelm, age 5). They had settled in Norka on 15 August 1767.
Konrad Fischer (born about 1730), his wife Anna Maria, son Johann Friedrich (age 14) [not sure who this guy is], daughter Anna Margaretha (age 19), and son-in-law Johannes Burbach are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 135.
Konrad [Fischer] and his wife Anna Maria [née Meininger] are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr142.
Konrad Fischer is recorded on the 1811 census of Norka in Household No. 142.
(2) Konrad Fischer (born about 1745), a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived in Oranienbaum.
Konrad Fischer, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria are recorded in Norka on the 1767 census in Household No. 83.
(3) Heinrich Fischer, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived in Oranienbaum.
Heinrich Fischer, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 70.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that all three came from the German region of Isenburg.
In 1796, Johannes Fischer moved from Norka to Messer.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 135).
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 142).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 513.
- 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): Ms87, Nr114, Nr142, Mv2012.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 246, 247, 251.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4030, #4031, #4032.
Brent Mai