Friedrich Flach, a miller, his wife Anna, and his brother Philipp (age 21) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Friedrich Flach is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that he died in route.
Philipp Flach arrived in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41 along with his [new] wife Anna Margaretha.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Flach came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Philipp Flach came from the German village of Snenkiries? near Greifenstein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Flach family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 283.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 239.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2061.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1690.
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