Grass (Frank)

Spelling Variations: 
Grass (Frank)
Грасъ (Frank)
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Discussion & Documentation: 

Konrad Grass, his wife Katharina, and brother-in-law Bernhard [Urich] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Johannes under the command of Skipper Stahl.

Johann Conrad Grass, his wife Cathrina, and brother-in-law Bernhard Uhlrich are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Grass was a blacksmith while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).

The 1767 census records that Konrad Grass came from the German village of Groß-Umstadt in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.

Sources: 

- 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): Fk123.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 426.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6360.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7578-7580.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies