Hans Adam Krämer and Anna Katharina Herdel were married on 27 August 1726 in Wald-Michelbach, east of Weinheim. They had a number of children including two sons, both of whom were born in Affolterbach: (1) Johann Theobald, baptized on 1 February 1733 in Wald-Michelbach; and (2) Johann Leonhard, baptized 8 February 1739 in Wald-Michelbach.
They immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Fridericia 1 May 1760.
(1) The parish register in Altona records on 14 April 1760 the marriage of Theobald Krämer from Wald-Michelbach to Eva Katharina Wilhelm. Eva Katharina Wilhelm had been born in Ober-Schönmattenweg and baptized on 15 May 1732 in Wald-Michelbach.
They are last recorded among the Danish colonies on 26 April 1763.
Theobald Krämer, a farmer, his wife Eva Katharina, and sons (Johann Georg, age 9½; Johann Adam, age 2½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 14. They had arrived in Anton on 7 September 1764.
Theobald Krämer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An21 along with a note that his only son Johann Adam Krämer is working in the colony of Schilling and living with relatives there.
(2) The parish register of Fridericia [Denmark] records on 3 June 1760 the marriage of Leonhard Krämer from Affolterbach to Anna Katharina Lemm from Leutershausen.
They are last recorded among the Danish colonies on 26 April 1763.
Leonhard Krämer, a farmer, and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 15. They had arrived in Anton on 7 September 1764.
Widower Leonhardt Krämer is recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An18. He does not have any surviving male descendants.
The Eichhorns record that
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-871, B-873, B-874.
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): An18, An21.
- Parish register of Altona [Denmark] (LDS Film No. 1198960).
- Parish register of Fredericia [Denmark] (LDS Film No. 0053464).
- Parish register of Wald-Michelbach (LDS Film No. 1340338).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 56.
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