Peter Kreipen [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Maria, age 23; August, age 21; Franz, age 18; Johann, age 13; Peter, age 11; Franziscus, age 9; Andreas, age 5; Maria Franziska, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier. Most of this family appears to have died shortly after arrival in Russia.
Augustin Krepin, a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 219.
His sister [Maria] Françoise is also recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 220.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Kreipen [sic] came from France. The 1767 census records that Augustin Krepin came from the French village of St. Hilaire.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 320.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4481.
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