Ludwig Kreÿner, a hunter (Schießer) born in Südingen [Südlingen] in the Pfalz, & Elisabeth Giessen from Altona were married on 12 June 1766 in Pastor Peterssen's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Ludwig Kreiner(t), his wife Elisabeth, and [servant] Karl [Hartmann] (age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Ludwig Kreiner, his wife Elisabeth, son Johann Fridrich (born en route), and servant Karl Hartmann (age 16) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 51.
In 1775, Ludwig Kreinert and his family left Urbach.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Kreiner was a cobbler while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Kreiner came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Ludwig Kreiner came from the German village of Sinsheim in the Kurpfalz region.
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Brent Mai