Johann[es] Mallad, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Joh. Malade, his wife Catrina, and daughter Catrina (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that newborn Catrina also died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 22 August 1767. Johannes is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 99 along with his new wife Kunigunda and her children (Johann Georg, age 19; Eva, age 11) whose surname is not recorded. These children and their widowed mother, however, appear on the same ship in Oranienbaum under the surname of Reser.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Mallad came from the German region of Schönbronn. The 1767 census records that Johannes Mallad came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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