Franz Doris [sic], and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Franz Thuris, a miller (Müller), his wife Katharina, and son Johann Adam (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 33 along with the orphaned Katharina Reuter. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Thuris and Reuter families. They had settled in Preuss on 12 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Doris [sic] came from the German region of Stermark?. The 1767 census records that Franz Thuris came from the Austrian village of Mürzzuschlag.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 153.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 417.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #954.
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