Jakob Kreiss, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Jakob Kreis and his wife Barbara are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Jakob Kreiss, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Barbara settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 109.
Jakob Kreiss is recorded on the 1798 census in the colony of Preuss (Ps67).
The death of Jakob Kreiss (age 78) of Preuss is recorded on 6 January 1804 in the parish register of Preuss.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Kreiss came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Jakob Kreiss came from the German village of Arnstein near Würzburg.
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- 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): Ps67.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 433.
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