Johann Krentz, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Maria Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Johannes Grenz [sic], a farmer, and his wife Maria Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 90. They arrived in Pfeifer on 22 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Krentz came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Grenz came from the German village of Hilders in the region of Würzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Krentz family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 645.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 399.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5180.
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