Friedrich Vorbach, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
He married widow Maria Katharina Schiebelhut. They settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 76 along with her children (Johannes, age 19; Johann Kaspar, age 16; and Johann Adam, age 11) whose surname of Schiebelhut is not recorded there.
In 1795, widower Friedrich Vorbach moved from Kutter to Beideck.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Friedrich Vorbach came from the German region of Hanau.
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Brent Mai