Johann[es] Fritz, a farmer, his wife Eva, and daughter Magdalena (age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard the galliot Der Jan under the command of Skipper Markus Dragun.
Johanes Frietz [sic] and his wife Eva are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Eva died in route.
Johannes Fritz, a mason (Maurer), and his [new] wife Charlott are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 63. They had arrived there on 19 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Fritz was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a mason (Maurer).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Fritz came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Kalefalz in the Trier region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fritz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 228.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5679.
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