Suppes (Pfeifer)
Johann[es] Suppes, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Konrad, age 12; Christoph, age 9; Andreas, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the pink Lev under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13.
Andreas Suppes and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf63.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Suppes came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Lauterbach.
- 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): Pf63.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 380.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2369.
Brent Mai