Peter Kranz, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboad the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57.
In 1788, Peter Krantz and his wife moved from Preuss to Keller.
Peter Krantz from Preuss and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk23.
The 1767 census records that Peter Kranz came from the village of Arlon in Luxembourg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Krantz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Nk23, Mv2342.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 422.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2178.
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