Friedrich Krebs & Christine Bock were married on 7 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
Johann Friedrich Krebs, a farmer, and his wife Christina arrived from Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
Friedrich Krebs and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk039.
Heinrich Krebs, stepson of Sebastian Vogt, is recorded on the 1834 census of Anton in Household No. 92. This Heinrich Krebs is believed to be the son of Friedrich Krebs of Frank, but further research is needed to confirm this relationship.
The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Krebs came from the German village of Grossenhausen in the Hannover region.
- 1834 Anton Census (Household No. 92).
- 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): Fk039.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #384.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 421.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #533.
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