Erdmann Berger [sic] & Catharina Elisabeth Liebrecht were married on 8 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Erdmann Präger, a blacksmith, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33. The 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
In 1785, Erdmann Präger and his family moved from Urbach to Stahl am Karaman.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Erdmann Präger came from the German region of Zerbst. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Anhalt-Zerbst.
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- 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): Sk01, Mv2896.
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Brent Mai