Johann Heinrich Krämer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Gottlieb, age 8; Dorothea Sophia, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard a ship named Nord Stern under the command of Skipper Detlef Behling [this information is mis-recorded in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
Johann Heinrich Krämer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Johann Gottlieb, age 8; Dorothea Sophia, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Maria Elisabeth and daughter Dorothea Sophia died en route.
Johann Heinrich Krämer, his new wife Maria Katharina, and son Johann Gottlieb (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 53 along with his stepchildren [surname Matthias] (Anna Sophia, age 6; Gottlieb, age 3).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Krämer came from the German region of Prussia. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Krämer came from the German village of Suhl in the Sachsen region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 661.
- 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): Ur21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 282.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5249 (p.333 - should be p.337).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2079-2082.
Brent Mai