Johann Harrer, a baker (Bäcker), and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johannes Harrer, his wife Barbara, and sons (Johann Michael, age 9; Johann Caspar, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johann Michael died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
The 1767 census records that Johann Harrer came from the German region of the Kurpfalz. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that he came from the region of Nürnberg.
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): 193.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1552.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1429-1432.
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