Daniel Krücher, a gardner (Gärtner), and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 17 August 1767. Daniel Krücher is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 167 along with his wife Anna Elisabeth Hackl.
Daniel Krücher (age 47), a gardner (Gärtner), and his wife Anna Elisabeth née Hackl (age 50) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 93.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Daniel Krücher came from the German village of Boksweiler [Buchsweiler] in the Hessen-Darmstadt region while his wife Anna Elisabeth Hackl came from the German village of Korbach near Waldeck.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Krucher family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 93).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 888.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 311.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7263.
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