Michael Strüffler, a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Michel [sic] Strüffler, his wife Maria Barbara, and daughter Doroth. (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 daughter Doroth. died en route.
Johann Michael Strifler, a farmer, and his wife Barbara are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 6 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Bettinger in 1768.
Dorothea Strifler, presumed daughter of Johann Michael Strifler, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bettinger in Household No. Bt20.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Strüffler came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johann Michael Strifler came from the German village of Weikersheim in the Nassau region.
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): Bt20.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 163.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4602.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5526-5528.
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