Friedrich Klein, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughters (Katharina, age 7; Maria, age 3¼) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Гданьская Надежда (Gdansk Hope) under the command of Skipper Johann Erdmann Geske.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Husaren on 17 February 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.
In 1798, Johann Adam Klein and his wife and brothers (Thomas & Philipp) moved from Husaren to Franzosen.
The 1834 census of Franzosen records that Adam Klein moved to the colony of Graf and Thomas Klein moved to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
Adam Klein from Franzosen is recorded on the 1834 census of Graf in Household No. 66.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Friedrich Klein came from Marienburg in Poland.
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Household No. 75).
- 1834 Graf Census (Household No. 66).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 85.
- 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): Fz43, Mv1046.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 169.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #333.
Brent Mai