Spelling Variations
Kraft (Enders)*
Крафтъ (Enders)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Martin Kraft, a craftsman (Handwerker), settled in the Volga German colony of Enders on 27 March 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25 along with his wife Maria Louisa, their son Hans Georg (age 1), and stepson Sina [?] Kifler (age 6).
The 1767 census records that Martin Kraft came from the German region of Kurpfalz and that his wife came from Paterburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kraft family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 388.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai