Strifler*

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.

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.