Peter Kramp, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Schönchen on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Hummel in 1768.
Christina Waldschmidt née Kramp from Hummer is recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om65.
The 1767 census records that Peter Kramp came from the German village of Steckelberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kramp family among the Volga German colonies.
- - 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): Om65.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 106.
Brent Mai