Philipp Krütz [sic], mason (Mauer), died 18 October 1729 (age 67) in Roßbach. He married Anna Catharina [surname not recorded]. She died 29 May 1731 (age 53) in Roßbach.
The following children born to Philipp & Anna Catharina Krütz [sic] of Roßbach are recorded in the parish register of Zeitlofs: (1) Georg, born 24 April 1686; (2) daughter, died 12 November 1696 [age 11-weeks); (3) Elisabeth, born 20 August 1697, died 14 September 1697; (4) Catharina, born 5 December 1698; (5) Peter, born about 1704, died 11 March 1750 [age 46-years]; (6) Heinrich Christoph, born 20 August 1706; (7) Balthasar, born 11 April 1709; (8) Nicolaus, born 5 February 1711; (9) Johann Michael, born 17 August 1713; (10) Catharina, born 29 April 1719; and (11) Anna Christina.
Nicolaus Grutsch [sic], son of Philipp Grutsch, married in Roßbach on 23 May 1738 to Anna Margaretha Müller, daughter of Johannes Müller of Roßbach.
The births of the following children born to Nicolaus Krutsch & Anna Margaretha Müller of Roßbach are recorded in the parish register of Zeitlofs: (1) unnamed son, stillborn 18 January 1739; (2) Johannes, born 20 October 1740; (3) Johann Michael [birth not located]; (4) Margaretha, born 19 July 1746; (5) Anna Margaretha, born 28 July 1748; (6) Johannes, born 25 May 1751; (7) Daniel, born 31 August 1754; and (8) unnamed daughter, stillborn 10 April 1759.
Johann Michael Krutsch, a farmer, and his siblings (Anna, age 21; Margaretha, age 20; Johann, age 18; Daniel, age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
(1) [Johann] Michael Krutsch, a farmer, his [new] wife Katharina, and brothers (Johann, age 18; Daniel, age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 38 along with his stepchildren (Katharina Pfeifer, age 17; Kaspar Pfeifer, age 13). They had arrived in Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767. [See Pfeifer Family.]
Michael Krutsch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk11.
(2) Johannes Krutsch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm11. [One translation of the 1798 census erroneously records his surname as Krug.]
The death of Johannes Krutsch at the age of 56 years is recorded in the Parish Register of Rosenheim on 11 March 1799.
Christian Krutsch and his family (along with his mother) are recorded on the 1834 census of Rosenheim in Households No. 9 & 85.
(3) Daniel Krutsch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk18.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Krutsch family came from the German region of Dienheim.
Documents record this surname with a variety of spellings including Krutsch, Krütz, Grutsch, and Grutz.
- 1834 Rosenheim Census (Households No. 9, 85).
- 1850 Rosenheim Census (Household 127).
- 1857 Rosenheim Census (Household 141).
- 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): 417.
- 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): Rm11, Sk11, Sk18.
- Parish register of Rosenheim.
- Parish register of Zeitlofs (including Roßbach).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 200.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3241.
Brent Mai
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Dominik Krämer
Entry from the parish register of Roßbach recording the birth of Nicolaus Krutsch on 5 February 1711.
Source: Dominik Krämer.