Widow Katharina Klapper and her children (Anna Maria, age 17½; Maria, age 15; Just, age 12; Sophia, age 9; Georg, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
Widow Catarina Klepper [sic] and her children (Anna Christina [sic], age 18; Maria Margaretha, age 17; Johann Martin [sic], age 14; Sophia, age 10; Johann Georg, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Katharina Klapper came from the German region of Braunfels. The 1767 census records that Katharina Klapper came from the German village of Biskirchen near Braunfels.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 455.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 472.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3549.
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