Klein (Müller)
Johann Conrad Klein, son of Johann Conrad & Elisabetha Klein, was born in Zell in November 1729 and baptized in January 1730.
Anna Elisabetha Roeß was born in Zell on 4 August 1740 and baptized 6 August 1740.
Johann Conrad Klein and Anna Elisabetha Roeß married in Zell on 8 March 1764.
The birth of one child born to Johann Conrad Klein & Anna Elisabetha Roeß has been located in Zell: Anna Dorothea, born 2 July 1764, baptized 4 July 1764.
Konrad Klein, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Anna (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.
Johannes Klein, son of the deceased Johann Konrad Klein and his unnamed deceased wife, is recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml32.
In 1793, Georg Klein moved from Müller to Shcherbakovka.
Johann Georg Klein from Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv39.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Klein came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Zell.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- 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): Ml32, Sv39, Mv1804.
- Parish register of Billertshausen (including Zell).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 177.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3635.
Brent Mai
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