Andreas Fricke, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Sophia, age 17; Andreas, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Andreas Frecke [sic], his wife Sophia, and daughter Sophia (age 11½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both mother Sophia and daughter Sophia died en route.
Andreas Finken [sic], a farmer, his [new] wife Anna, and [step-?]daughter Sophia (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 47. They had settled in Boisroux on 3 August 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Andreas Fricke came from the German region of Zerbst.
A list of Andreas Fricke's debts recorded in Wörlitz in 1766 indicates that he was born in Coswig.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fricke family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 552.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 151.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4310.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5011-5013.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 90, 91.
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List of those who immigrated to Russia from Wörlitz in 1766 recording their debts along with their place of birth.
Source: Karl Becker.