Friedrich Kissauer, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Christian [sic] Küssauer, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife [new?] Maria Catharina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Friedrich Kissauer and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 68.
In 1794, widower Friedrich Kissauer moved from Boisroux to Orlovskaya.
Friedrich Kissauer, his wife, step-daughter, and step-daughter's family are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or02 along with a note that he is living in the village of Kurilovka, Volskaya district, on land owned by a Mr. Beketov.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Kissauer came from the region of Berlin while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Köthen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Bo36, Or02, Mv0332.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 156.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4385.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5042-5043.
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