Johann Philipp Klein, son of Johann Ernst Klein & Anna Elisabetha Ries, was baptized in Södel on 30 May 1719. He married there on 17 November 1746 to Anna Elisabeth Raab, daughter of Johannes Raab & Maria Elisabetha Krafft, who was born 4 March 1725 in Trais an der Horloff.
Philipp & Elisabeth Klein had the following children: (1) Anna Clara, born 19 November 1747, died 1 December 1747; (2) Johann Adam, born 15 March 1749; (3) Anna Elisabeth, born 29 September 1751, died 2 December 1751; (4) Anna Christina, born 17 March 1753; (5) Johannes, born 20 November 1755, died 2 September 1757; (6) Maria Catharina, born 9 January 1760; (7) Johann Henrich, born 30 April 1761; and (8) Magdalena, born 20 July 1764.
Philipp Klein, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Adam, age 19; Christina, age 14¾; Katharina, age 8; Magdalena, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
Philipp Klein, a farmer, his [new] wife Christina Dorothea, and children (Christina, age 16; Maria Katharina, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 67 along with step-children (Maria, age 8; Heinrich Ulabius [Olof], age 7; Christina, age 4) [surname Lindholm].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Klein came from the German region of Hohensolms.
Some sources cite this surname as Kleim.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 707.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Fk070.
- Meyer, Herbert. Die Familien - Chronik Södel - Band 2 (Södel, 2002).
- Müller, Hanno. Familienbuch Trais-Horloff, Inheiden, Utphe (Fernwald-Steinbach: Hanno Müller, 1997): 210 & 314.
- Parish records of Nieder-Wöllstadt.
- Parish records of Södel.
- Parish records of Trais an der Horloff.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 429.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5650.
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