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 turner (Dreher), and his wife Magdalena arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Andreas Fischer and his wife Magdalena are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Magdalena died en route.
Andreas Fischer, a turner (Dreher), and his [new] wife Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Susannental in Household No. 27. They had arrived in Susannental on 3 August 1767.
Andreas Fischer (age 32), a turner (Drechsler), his wife Elisabeth née Lotz (age 17), and children (August, born in 1777; Christina Dorothea, born in 1779; Anna Elisabeth, born in 1781; Andreas Friedrich, born in 1783) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 110.
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 Andreas Fischer came from Erfurt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Uphersleben in the Zerbst region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that he came from Aschersleben in the Brandenburg region and that his wife came from Alsfeld in the region of Hessen Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fischer family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 110).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #4742 (not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve)
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 265.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4950-4951.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Andreas Fischer and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.