Johann Jakob Gropp, a farmer, and his mother Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov along with Johann Jakob's sister Anna Elisabeth Brill and her family.
Neither Johann Jakob nor his mother appear to have survived the journey from Oranienbaum to the Volga German colony of Norka where Anna Elisabeth Brill and her family settled in 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Jakob Gropp came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gropp 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): 519.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4081.
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