Anton Krämer, his wife Anna, and children (Karl, age 21; Johann, age 16¼; Anton, age 13; Philipp, age 11; Konrad, age 8; Wilhelmina, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Anton Krämer, his wife Christina, and sons (Karl, age 20, died in route; [a] Johann Christoph, age 16; [b] Anton, age 13; [c] Philipp, age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
In 1772, Anton Krämer and his family moved from Orlovskaya to Katharinenstadt.
Anton Krämer (age 61), his wife Anna Christina née Andr.[?] (age 59), and sons (Anton, age 21; Philipp, age 19) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 70 along with the younger Anton's wife Anna Maria née Wunderlich (age 19).
[a] Christoph Krämer (age 23), his wife Anna Katharina [maiden name not recorded] (age 20), and daughter Magdalena (age 2½) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 71.
Christoph Krämer from Orlovskaya and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka072.
[b] Anton Krämer (age 21) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 70
Anton Krämer (age 44) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka058.
[c] Philipp Krämer (age 19) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 70
Anna Maria Krämer (née Hahn), widow of Philipp Krämer from Katharinenstadt, is recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx56 along with a note that she is living with her children in Katharinenstadt.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Krämer came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Wölferlingen in the Runkel region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Anton Krämer came from the area of "Morge-Hausen" [?] and that his wife came from the village of Blessbach [?].
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Households No. 70, 71).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 685.
- 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): Bx56, Ka072, Ka058, Mv2129.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 317.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5445.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6921-6926.
Brent Mai