Konrad Krag [sic], his wife Anna, and children (Helena, age 16¼; Anna, age 10¼; Johann, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Konrad Kracht, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Helena, age 17; Jakob, age 7; Adam, age 6-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 114 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Paulskaya in 1768.
In 1786, Johann Jakob Kracht moved from Meinhard to Kaneau.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Kracht came from the German village of Lohr.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 883.
- 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): Kn31, Mv1659.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 373.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7211.
Brent Mai