Krenzinger*
Michael Krenzinger, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Sarah Barbara, and daughter Maria Margaretha (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard the galliot Der Jan under the command of Skipper Markus Dragun.
Michael Krezinger [sic], his wife Barbara Sara, and daughter Mari. Margreth. (age 20) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Barbara Sara and died en route.
Michael Krenzinger and his new wife Margarethe are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 65. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.
Daughter Maria Margaretha Krenzinger is believed to have married Michael Müller and is recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 66.
The 1767 census records that Michael Krenzinger came from the German district of Reutlingen [?] in the Schwaben (Swabia) region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 161.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5668.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6594-6596.
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