Jakob Tracker [sic], a weaver (Leineweber), his wife Maria, and daughters (Margaretha, age 10½; Elisabeth, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Jacob Tracker, his wife Elisabeth, and daugthers (Philippina, age 10½; Elisabeth, age 6) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both daughters died en route.
Jakob Träger, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 21.
Widower Jakob Träger his daughter and son-in-law Karl Niederheim are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh16.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Tracker [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Jakob Träger came from the German village of Kronshausen [?] in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Träger family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 675-676.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 356.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5368.
- 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): Sh16.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2975-2978.
Brent Mai