Philipp Spahr, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
The widow Philipp Spahr and his children (Johann Peter, age 29; Wilhelmina, age 17) are recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm29. Gottfried Spahr, believed to be another son of Philipp Spahr, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm32.
The death Johann Peter Spahr in 1805 is recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 29.
Gottfried Spahr is recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 32, but does not appear to have any male descendants.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Philipp Spahr came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Spahr family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Nieder-Monjou Census (Households No. 29, 32).
- 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): Nm29, Nm32.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7002.
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