Konrad Krämer, a miller, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Konrad Krämer, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 25 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.
His daughter, Johanna Magdalena, whose unnamed husband had deserted after arrival in Oranienbaum, is also recorded in the household (along with her daughter Anna Katharina [surname not recorded]). This Johanna Magdalena later married Wilhelm Schmidt.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Krämer came from the German region of Garz (Harz?). The 1767 census records that Konrad Krämer came from the German village of Klistadt in the Hannover region.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 338.
- 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): Sf31.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 104.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2513.
Brent Mai