Andreas Kraner, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Katharina (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Andreas Krecker [sic] (age 56), a farmer, his wife Katharina (age 30), and daughter Katharina (age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 55. They had arrived in Messer on 18 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Kraner came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Andreas Krecker came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kraner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 250.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 144.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1788.
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