Jakob Krämer, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Jakob, age 15; Elisabeth, age 13; Anna, age 7; Maria, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Jakob Krämer, a farmer, his [new] wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Johann Jakob, age 17; Elisabeth, age 15; Anna Maria, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 17 along with Anna Margaretha's children (Johann Adam Hergenröther, age 10; Johannes Hergenröther, age 8). They had arrived in Sewald on 20 August 1767.
Margaretha Krämer, widow of Jakob Krämer, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd13. Nikolaus Krämer (age 26) in Household No. Sd14 is presumed to be the son of Jakob Krämer as well.
Daughter Anna Maria Krämer and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd29.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Krämer came from the German village of Schwalbach in the Nassau 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): Sd13, Sd14, Sd29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 171.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2769.
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