Johann Kraus, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Johann Friedrich Kraus, a farmer, and his [new] 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 Hauptdrüch] (Johann Wilhelm, age 7; Anna, age 2-weeks). [See Hauptdrüch Family.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kraus came from the German region of Hoff. 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.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 553.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 262.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4322.
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