Franz Conrad Will [sic] & Margretha Schenck were married on 9 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Franz Konrad and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Franz Konrad, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha Schenk are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 12. They had settled there on 20 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Franz Konrad came from the German village of Kleinsteinhausen in the Mainz region.
- 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): Gb60.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #392.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1607.
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