Johannes Kratz, son of Hanß Heinrich Kratz & Anna Elisabeth Schmidt, was born 25 June 1725 in Zeilbach.
He married on 26 November 1743 in Zeilbach to Anna Maria Rohr, daughter of Johann Ludwig Rohr and Anna Maria Burck. She had been born 10 November 1726 in Zeilbach.
The couple had nine children each born in Zeilbach, of whom are: (1) Johann Conrad, born 5 September 1749; (2) Julianna, born 28 February 1752; and (3) Anna Maria, born 16 March 1760.
Johannes Kratz, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Konrad, age 20; Julianna, age 18; Anna, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
Johann[es] Kratz, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Conrad, age 21; Juliana, age 19; Anna Maria, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on an appendix to the 1767 census in Household No. 3 along with a note indicating that they relocated to the colony of Basel in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Kratz came from the German region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Zelbig [Zeilbach].
- 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): Bs09.
- Parish register of Zeilbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 163.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3897.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5166-5170.
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