Heinrich Kraus, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria (age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Heinrich Kraus, a farmer, his wife Margaretha Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Katharina (age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinhard in Household No. 31. They had settled there on 15 October 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Kraus came from the German village of Anklam. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Kraus came from the German village of Anklam in the region of Pommern (Pomerania).
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): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 382.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 27.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2915.
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