Herrfurt*
Christian Gottlieb Herfurth & Mria Elisabeth Kleinmuth were married on 10 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Christian Herrfurt, a farmer, his wife Johanna Sophia, and daughter Barbara (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
Christian died, and his wife remarried to Gottfried Landmann. The combined Landmann / Herrfurt family settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 13 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Herrfurt came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #944.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 270.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3291.
Brent Mai