Christoph Konrad, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Christoph Konrad is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christoph Conrad, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies in Household No. 9 along with stepson Gottlieb Walter (age 5).
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Konrad came from the German village of Kauschwitz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Konrad family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 852.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 351.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4265.
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