Friedrich Froos, a single barber, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Joh. Ludewig Froos is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Ludwig Fros, a single weaver (Schneider), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 128 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Fros came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Ludwig Fros came from the German village of Meiling.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 375.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4340.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5146.
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