1. Surnames
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Kratz (Unknown)*

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Spelling Variations: 
Крацъ (Unknown)*
Kratz (Unknown)*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Pre-Volga Origin: 
Obernau, Kr. Altenkirchen, Rheinland-Pfalz
Discussion & Documentation: 

Konrad Kratz, a farmer, and his Gertrude arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.

Joh. Conrad Kratz and his wife Gertruta [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Konrad Kratz, a farmer, and his wife Gertrude are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 64.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Kratz came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Obernau.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Kratz family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 173.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4654.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2781-2782.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies