Johannes Gräffenstein, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna Christina [sic], age 13; Johannes, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild. [This entry from the Plehve translation of the Oranienbaum passenger list is recorded incorrectly.]
Johannes Greffenstein [sic] and his children (Anna Catharina [sic], age 13; Johannes, age 10) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Gräffenstein, a linen weaver (Leinenweber), his [new] wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 14; Johannes, age 12) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (No. 3) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
Son Johannes (age 41) is recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr25.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Gräffenstein came from the German village of Germitsas [?].
- 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): Zr25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 349.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6977.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8711-8713.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger lists recording the family of Johannes Gräffenstein.
Source: Brent Mai.
Pre-Volga Origin
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