Spelling Variations
Betz (Kraft)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Widower Kaspar Betz, a farmer, and his daughter Katharina (age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Skipper Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Betz came from the German village of Lieblos in the Isenburg region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 402.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4086.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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