Karl Zengraf, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria (age ½) arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Carl Zingraff [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Eva (age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Maria Eva died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 20 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 105 along with 5-week-old Anna Katharina.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Karl Zengraf came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Karl Zengraf came from the German village of Werdenberg in the Würzburg region.
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- 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): Pf07.
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Brent Mai