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Konrad (Kaneau)

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Peter Konrad, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and son Johannes (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.

Peter Konrad (age 28), a farmer, his wife Magdalena (age 35), and daughter Maria (age 1-month) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 49. They had arrived in Kaneau on 10 May 1767.

In 1786, Peter Konrad and his family moved from Kaneau to Graf.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Konrad came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Peter Konrad came from the German village of Willingen in the Pfalz region.

Sources

- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 61.
- 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): Gf10, Mv1140.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 254.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #133.

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