Jean Crety, a weaver (Weber), his wife Maria Wiedeberg, and son Johann Franz (age 1-week) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 67. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.
Jean Crety (age 36), a linen weaver (Leinweber), and his wife Maria Heinrika née von der Berg (age 33) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 83 along with a note that he is in business with Jakob Nickelmann.
The 1767 census records that Jean Crety came from the French town of Rennes and that his wife Maria Wiedeberg had come from the Danish town of Christinen [?]. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Jean Crety came from the town of Rennes in the Bratagen region and that his wife came form the Danish town of Kristiansand [from 1523-1814, Norway was governed by Denmark].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 83).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 290.
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