Johann Fischer, his wife Margaretha, and daughters (Eva, age 11; Katharina, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
Johann Fischer, his wife Margaretha, and daughters (Eva, age 11; Catharina, age 3) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the father and both daughters died in route.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fischer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7040.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4510-4513.
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