Speri / Spory*

Johann[es] Speri [sic], a weaver, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johannes, age 18; Elisabeth, age 15; Barbara, age 13; Reinhard, age 11; Peter, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.

Johann Speri, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann, age 18; Elisabeth, age 15; Barbara, age 13; Reichhardt, age 11; Peter, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Elisabeth and son Reichhardt died en route.

The parents died, and the children settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 226.

The 1767 census records that the Spory [sic] family came from the Kanton of Zürich in Switzerland.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.