Spelling Variations
Kraus (Kaneau)*
Краусъ (Kaneau)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Friedrich Kraus, a farmer, and his wife Anna Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 7 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 83 along with stepchildren [surname Hauptrock] (Johann Wilhelm, age 7; Anna, age 2-weeks).
The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Kraus came from the German village of Gutenfürst [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kraus family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 262.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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