Georg Fried, a farmer/vintner (Winzer), his wife Anna, and daughter Katharina (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer. Georg's wife died and he remarried to widow Fenizidas Bittner.
Georg Fried (age 49), a farmer, and his wife Fenizidas (age 39) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 73. They had arrived in Kaneau on 7 June 1767.
The 1798 census of Luzern records Georg Fried from Kaneau living in Household No. Lz22.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Fried came from the German region of Elsass (Alsace). The 1767 census records that Georg Fried came from the German village of Rechtenburg.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 61.
- 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): Lz22.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 260.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #134.
Brent Mai