Nikolaus Grasser, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna Maria, age 16; Jill [sic], age 13; Katharina, age 10½; Anna, age 6; Nikolaus, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Nicolaus Grasser, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna Maria, age 16; Schildt [sic], age 12; Anna Cathrina, age 8; Anna, age 6; Nicolaus, age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Nikolaus Grasser, his [new] wife Anna [the widow of Johann Riedel], children [by his first wife] (Anna, age 18; Julius [sic], age 16; Anna Katharina, age 12; Nikolaus, age 4), and step-children (Johann Nikolaus Riedel, age 20; Anna Maria Riedel, age 15; Johann Andreas Riedel, age 12; Georg Riedel, age 8) are recored on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 35. The combined Grasser/Riedel family had settled in Hölzel on 11 September 1767.
The widow and children of Kilian Grasser are recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz08.
Nikolaus Grasser and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz19.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Grasser came from Luxembourg. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Grasser came from the village of Frelen [?] in Luxembourg.
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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): 747.
- 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): Hz08, Hz19.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 117.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5976.
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Brent Mai