Krug (Seelmann)*

Johannes Krug, son of Paul & Anna Margaretha Krug from Dipperz, was baptized in the St. Margareta Catholic Church in Margretenhaun on 14 June 1724.

Johannes Krug married on 16 February 1751 in Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Salmünster to Maria Elisabeth Adrian, daughter of Valentin Adrian & Maria Catharina Schlau from Salz. She had been born 10 October 1726 in Salz.

The baptisms of several children born in Soden to Johannes Krug & Maria Elisabeth Adrian are recorded in the parish register of Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Salmünster: (1) Maria Margaretha, baptized 28 March 1752; (2) Johannes Georg, baptized 15 October 1756; (3) Anna Maria, baptized 23 February 1759; (4) Johannes Melchior, baptized 14 August 1762, died 15 October 1762; and (5) Magdalena, baptized 31 March 1764.

Maria Elisabeth Krug née Adrian died on 19 November 1765 in Soden.

Johannes Krug remarried to the widow Maria Margaretha Schmidt.

Johannes Krug, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Maria, age 14; Johann Jakob [Schmidt], age 13; Johann Georg, age 9; Anna, age 7; Johann [Schmidt], age 6; Magdalena, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.

Johannes Krug, a cooper (Fassbinder), his wife Margaretha, and children from his first marriage (Elisabeth, age 18; Johann Georg, age 13; Maria Margaretha, age 9; Magdalena, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 10 along with stepsons (Johann Jakob Schmidt, age 16; Johannes Schmidt, age 6). They had settled there on 15 July 1767.

Daughter Margaretha Krug is recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk27.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Krug came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that Johannes Krug came from the German region of Zell.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Krug family among the Volga German colonies.