Johann Peter Fuchs was baptized on 27 November 1704 in Glauberg. He married Beata Geberd.
The parish register of Glauberg records the baptism of the following son born to Johann Peter Fuchs & Beata Geberd: Johann Caspar, baptized 15 October 1738.
Johann Caspar Fuchs married in Glauberg on 7 February 1764 to Anna Barbara Nickel, daughter of Johann Conrad & Anna Dorothea Nickel. She had also been born in Glauberg on 5 October 1735 and baptized there on 9 October 1735. [See Nickel Family.]
Kaspar Fuchs, a farmer, his wife Anna, daughter Anna (age 1½), and sister-in-law Anna [surname not recorded] (age 25) 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 along with his father Peter Fuchs and brother Johann Fuchs (age 14).
Johann Kaspar Fuchs (age 30), a farmer, his wife Anna Barbara (age 22), son Johannes (age ½), and brother Johannes (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Galka in Household No. 55. They had arrived in Galka on 27 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both Kaspar and Peter Fuchs came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that Johann Kaspar Fuchs came from the German village of Glauburg near Stolberg.
- 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): 248.
- 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): Gk11, Gk26.
- Parish register of Glauberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 34.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1772, #1773.
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