Christian Farger [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina Margaretha, and children (Ulrich, age 13; Johann Peter, age 7; Anna Maria, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Christian Farher, a farmer, his wife Katharina Margaretha Eckstein, and sons (Ulrich, age 16; Johann Peter, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 63. They had settled there on 21 August 1767.
Ulrich Pfarher and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl01.
The death of Ulrich Pfarher in 1826 on the 1834 census of Semenovka in Household No. 15.
Johannes Pfarher, grandson of Ulrich Pfarher, from Semenovka and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienberg.
Peter Pfarher and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl76.
The death of Peter Pfarher in 1824 is recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 102.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Farger [sic] came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that Christian Farger came from the German region of Fulda.
- 1834 Köhler Census (Households No. 66, 102).
- 1834 Semenovka Census (Households No. 15, 60, 112).
- 1857 Marienberg Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 632.
- 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): Kl01, Kl76.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 375.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5074.
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