Gottlieb Kraus, a baker (Bäcker), and his wfe Christina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Gottlob Krause and his wife Christi. Friederica are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Gottlieb Kraus, a farmer, and his wife Christina settled in the Volga German colony of Fischer on 28 July 1765 [sic]. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottlieb Kraus came from the German region of Zerbst. The 1767 census records that Gottlieb Kraus came from the German village of Ersterk [?] in the region of Schlesien [Silesia].
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 191.
- 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): Fs21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 412.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1276.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0552-0553.
Brent Mai