Joh. Andreas Fischer, turner (Drechsler) from Uphersleben, son of the deceased Joh. Heinrich Fischer, cuirassier (Cuirassi) with the Royal Prussian regiment of Vasoldt, & Magdal. Euphrosine Oszwald, widow of David Oszwald, turner (Drechsler) in Nürnberg, both Lutheran, married 14 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.
Andreas Fischer, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27 along with his [new] wife Maria.
He is believed to be the same Andreas Fischer whose widow and children are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka149.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that he is a baker from Zerbst. The 1767 census records that he is a turner (Dreher) from the village of Uphersleben in the Zerbst region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fischer 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): Ka149.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #809.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 265.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4407.
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