Kraft (Warenburg)
Melchior Kraft, a weaver, his wife Maria, and children (Christian [Heinrich], age 16; Johann [Jakob], age 12; Elisabeth, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Widow Maria Krafft [sic] and her sons (Christian Hinrich, age 16¼; Johann Jacob, age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
The two sons settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 78 along with their mother and step-father Friedrich Uhl.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Melchior Kraft came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Christian Heinrich Kraft came from the German region of Württemberg.
- 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): Wr081, Wr085.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 333.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2947.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2189-2191.
Brent Mai