Flach / Flack (Walter / Yagodnaya Polyana)*
Johannes Flach, son of Johann Nicolaus Flach, was born in Unter-Seibertenrod and baptized on 5 February 1713. Johannes Flach married on 26 November 1744 to Veronica Dörr, daughter of Eckhardt Dörr. She had been born in Unter-Seibertenrod on 9 November and baptized on 10 November 1720.
Among the children of Johannes Flach & Veronica Dörrborn in Unter-Seibertenrod are: (1) Anna Veronica, born 7 September 1745; (2) Catharina, born 16 March 1749; (3) Anna Catharina, born 18 January 1752; (4) Jacob, born 11 November 1758; and (5) Anna Elisabetha, born 16 June 1761.
Anna Veronica Flach from Seiberterode & Johann Peter Schneidmüller from Bobenhausen in the district of Ulrichstein were married on 3 July 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen. [See Schneidmüller Family.]
Johann Flach, a farmer, his wife Veronica, and children (Katharina, age 20; Anna Katharina, age 18; Jakob, age 9; Elisabeth, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.
Johannes Flach, his wife Veronica, and children (Catharina, age 18; Anna Catharina, age 16; Johann Jacob, age 9; Anna Elisab., age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Two surviving daughters settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 10 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 105 where daughter Anna Katharina has married Christoph Hartmann and her younger sister Anna (age 6) is living with them.
Single Anna Katharina Flach is recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 38 along with the Johann Peter Schneidmüller family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Flach and Schneidmüller families, but since Johann Peter's wife Anna Veronika was also a Flach, this Anna Katharina is believed to be her sister. Katharina Flach is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Yp60 married to Johann Christian Dietz.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Flach came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that the surviving Flach daughters also came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Flach 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): Yp60.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): A-129, A-133.
- 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): #727.
- Parish records of Ober-Ohmen (including Unter-Seibertenrod).
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 183.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 318.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6220, #6337.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8065-8070.
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