Frank (Paulskaya)
Johann Karl Franke & Christiana Sophia Teller were married on 8 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Karl Frank and his wife Johanna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Carl Francke [sic] and his wife Joh. Elisabet are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 22 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58 along with his new wife Christine and the orphan Konrad Boxhorn. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Frank and Boxhorn families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Karl Frank was a stonemason while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
Both documents record that Karl Frank came from the German region of Dessau.
- 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): Pl05.
- 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): #920.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 345.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1422.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1184-1185.
Brent Mai