Krämer (Anton)

Hans Adam Krämer and Anna Katharina Herdel were married on 27 August 1726 in Wald-Michelbach, east of Weinheim. They had a number of children including two sons, both of whom were born in Affolterbach: (1) Johann Theobald, baptized on 1 February 1733 in Wald-Michelbach; and (2) Johann Leonhard, baptized 8 February 1739 in Wald-Michelbach.

They immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) where son Theobald married on 14 April 1760 in the colony of Altona to Eva Katharina Wilhelm who had been born in Ober-Schönmattenweg and baptized on 15 May 1732 in Wald-Michelbach. Second son, Leonhard, married in the colony of Fredericia (Denmark) on 3 June 1760 to Anna Katharina Lemm. She had been born about 1720 in Leutershausen.

Theobald and Leonhard and their families immigrated to Russia in 1763, arriving in Anton on 7 September 1764. They are recorded there respectively on the 1767 census in Households No. 14 & 15.

Widower Leonhardt Krämer is recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An18. He does not have any surviving male descendants.

Theobald Krämer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An21 along with a note that his only son Johann Adam Krämer is working in the colony of Schilling and living with relatives there.