Johann Fürheiling, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
The surviving daughters (Eva, age 18, & Elisabeth, age 17) settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 95.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Führheiling family came from the German region of Franken (Franconia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 383.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5065.
Brent Mai