Johann Adam Dirolf, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin.
Johann Adam Tirolff [sic] and his wife Elisabeth Magdalena [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widow Elisabeth Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 107.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Adam Dirolf came from the German region of Erbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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