Valentin Grabe married in 1761 to Agness Stössel, widow of Friedrich Ehrenberg.
Valentin Grabe, a farmer, his wife Agness, and children (Dorothea, age 18; Wilhelm [Ehrenberg], age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. [See Grabe Family.]
Christian Grabe, his wife Agnese, and children (Dorothea, age 18; Willhelm [Ehrenberg], age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Valentin Grabe, a farmer, his wife Agnesia, and [step-]son Wilhelm [Ehrenberg] (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 24. They had arrived in Boisroux on 7 June 1767.
Widow Agnesia Grabbe née Stössel and her son Wilhelm's widow and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx05.
- 1834 Boisroux Census (Household No. 61).
- 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): Bx05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 144.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1322.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0641-0646.
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