Ambrosius Froschäuser, son of Johann Georg Froschäuser, was from Schmidttor [location not verified]. He married 28 April 1746 in Gelnhausen, east northeast of Frankfurt, to Anna Margaretha Schaub. They have the following children, each born/baptized in Gelnhausen: (1) Katharina Juliana, born 8 January 1747; (2) Johann Paul Christoph, born 13 October 1749; (3) Philipp Jakob, born 5 February 1751; (4) Johannes, born 10 February 1754; and (5) Anna Maria Dorothea, born 3 October 1756.
Ambrosius Froscheiser, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Anna, and children (Johann Philipp, abe 18; Johannes, age 16¼; Dorothea, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
The Froschäuser family settled in Beideck and are recorded there on the 1775 census in Household No. 5 along with a note that their house had burned in 1770.
Son Philipp Froscheiser and his family are recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Bd25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ambrosius Froscheiser came from the German village of Gelnhausen.
The spelling of this surname has also become Froscheiser and Froschauser, among others, through the years as descendants of this family have immigrated to other locations around the globe.
- 1775 census of Beideck (No. 5).
- Frey, Julius. "Auswanderung aus den Kreisen Gelnhausen und Büdingen im Jahre 1766." GeschischisblätterÜrstadt und Kries Gelnhausen.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 234.
- 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): Bd25.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1668.
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Brent Mai