Erasmus Krämer, a farmer, and his wife Franziska arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
Erasmus Krämer, a farmer, and his wife Franziska settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
Erasmus Krämer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd26.
In 1790, Johann Georg Krämer moved from Sewald.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Erasmus Krämer came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Erasmus Krämer came from the German village of Neustadt in the Pfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Krämer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 426.
- 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): Rt02, Sd26, Mv2752.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 174.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3323.
Brent Mai