Heinrich Jäger, a weaver, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke.
In 1792, widow Maria Gertrude Jäger and her son moved from Kratzke to Frank where she married Johann Georg Frank.
Johann Georg Frank, his wife [widow or Heinrich Jäger], and stepson Johann Jäger are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk121.
Johann Heinrich Jäger is recorded on the 1811 census of Frank in Household No. 121 along with his stepfather Johann Georg Frank.
The death of Johann Heinrich Jäger in 1829 is recorded on the 1834 census of Frank in Household No. 172.
The Johannes Jäger and his siblings, children of Heinrich Jäger, are recorded on the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. Kr02.
The four surviving sons of Heinrich Jäger and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Kratzke in Households No. 13 & 52.
Adam Jäger, son of Nikolaus Daniel Jäger, is recorded on the 1857 census of Kratzke in Household No. 13 along with a note that a note that he moved to Hussenbach in 1851.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Jäger came from the German region of Nassau.
- 1811 Frank Census (Household No. 121).
- 1834 Frank Census (Household No. 172).
- 1834 Kratzke Census (Households No. 13, 52).
- 1857 Kratzke Census (Household No. 13).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 435.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Fk121, Kr02, Mv1426.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3392.
Brent Mai