Tobias Fruh [sic], a stocking maker, and his wife Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Nikolaus Peter Pinkom.
Tobias Froh and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony this family settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Tobias Fruh [sic] came from the German region of Baden.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4423.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5994-5995.
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