Tischer (Philippsfeld)
Johann Tischer, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Elisabeth, age 16½; Anna, age 10; Hartmann, age 8) along with Johann Tischer [presumed to be an older son] and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann [junior] Tischer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and stepchildren [actually his siblings] (Anna Elisabeth, age 11; Hartmann, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with Anna Elisabeth Tischer (age 17¼) who is presumed to be the older sister with whom he had arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johann [junior] Tischer, a farmer, his wife Maria, and siblings (Anna, age 12; Hartmann, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Philippsfeld in Household No. 15. They had settled in Philippsfeld on 3 August 1767.
Johannes Tischer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Philippsfeld in Household No. Pp12.
Johannes Tischer, son of Johannes Tischer, from Philippsfeld is recorded on the 1811 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 89.
The 1767 census records that Tischer came from the German village of Gesau.
- 1811 Krasnoyar Census (Household No. 89).
- 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): Pp12.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 406.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5313, #5314.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3435-3438, 3444.
Brent Mai