Johann Graf, a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Johann Graf, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Barbara arrived in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 18.
Widow Barbara Graf from Leitsinger is recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm44.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Graf came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Graf came from the German village of Vorweichloch [?] in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Graf family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 89.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sm44.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 66.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #370.
Brent Mai