Fraas (Luzern)
Wolfgang Fraas, a farmer, his wife Eva arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Wolfgang Fraass [sic] and his wife Eva are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They and their son Johannes (age 6 mo.) are recorded on the 1767 Beauregard List (No. 39). The children of son Johannes are recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz13 [erroneously recorded under surname of Fries].
The 1767 Beauregard List records that Wolfgang Fraas came from the German village of Kastel in the Pfalz region.
- 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): Lz13.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 357.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4617.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5894-5895.
Brent Mai