Mattias Gropp, a farmer, his wife Gertruda, and children (Johann, age 4; Maria, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Matthias Grup [sic], his wife Gerdruta, and children (Johann Friedrich, age 5½; Maria, age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Mattias Gropp, a linen weaver (Leineweber), and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 41.
Mattias Gropp and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Basel.
His descendants are recorded on the 1834 census of Basel in Household No. 21.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mattias Gropp came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Mattias Gropp came from the German village of Geislitz in the Hanau region.
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