Widow Katharina Klein and her son Konrad (age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Widow Katharina Klein and her son Konrad (age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 134. They had settled there on 15 July 1767.
Konrad Klein and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps16.
The death of Konrad Klein in 1798 is recorded on the 1811 census of Preuss in Household No. 69.
Jakob, Johann Wilhelm, and Anton Klein, sons of Konrad Klein, are recorded on the 1811 census of Preuss in Household No. 69 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Dehler in 1800.
Wilhelm Klein is recorded on the 1811 census of Dehler in Household No. 40 along with a note that he had arrived in Dehler from Preuss in 1800.
Jakob Klein and his brother Anton Klein are recorded on the 1811 census of Dehler in Household No. 52 along with a note that they had arrived in Dehler from Preuss in 1800.
Konrad's sons (Jakob, Wilhelm, and Anton) are each recorded on the 1834 census of Dehler in Households No. 50, 3, & 53, respectively.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Katharina Klein came from the German region of Bayern [Bavaria]. The 1767 census records that Katharina Klein came from the German village of Freimersheim in the region of Bayern [Bavaria].
- 1811 Dehler Census (Households No. 40, 52).
- 1811 Preuss Census (Household No. 69).
- 1834 Dehler Census (Households No. 3, 50, & 53).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 827.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ps69.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 439.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6624.
Brent Mai