Two Flach families arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They both settled in the Volga German colony of Luzern in 1768. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Heinrich Flach, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Christian, age 7; Elisabeth, age 4; Johann, age 2) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Heinrich Flach, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Christian, age 6; Elisabeth, age 5; Johannes, age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Flach (age 38), a farmer, and his family are recorded on the 1767 Beauregard recruiter list in Household No. 128.
(2) Valentin Flach, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Katharina, age 8; Friedrich, age 5¼) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Valentin Flach, his wife Catharina, and children (Maria Catharina, age 8; Friedr. Adam, age 6; Anna Maria, born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Valentin Flach (age 34), a farmer, and his family are recorded on the 1767 Beauregard recruiter list in Household No. 129.
In 1784, Friedrich Adam Flach moved from Luzern to Ober-Monjou.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both of these families came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that these families came from the German village of Breitfurt in the Trier region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 688.
- 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): Lz03, Lz06, Om06, Mv1784.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 374, 375.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5464, #5465.
Brent Mai