Kaspar Kraft, a single brewer (Bierbrauer), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 234.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records:
Kaspar Kraft (age 30), a farmer
His wife: Elisabeth Otto (age 27; born in Thelbey, Nördlingen)
Daughter: Johanna Judith (born 13 January 1776)
Stepson: Johann Konrad Hip (age 17; born in Oranienbaum, Anhalt-Dessau; died in 1783)
Sister-in-law: Rosina Otto (age 19; born in Mitgenborn, Isenburg)
Widow Anna Maria Marx married Kaspar Kraft in Katherinenstadt, and took son Philipp and daughters Maria Katharina and Anna Maria with her. Anna Maria, widow of Kaspar Kraft, is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka112 along with Johanna Judith Kraft, the daughter of Kaspar Kraft by his first wife.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Kaspar Kraft came from the German village of Aufhaussen in the Küssel region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kraft family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register (Household No. 115).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ka112, Mv1786.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 323.
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