Ignatius Kreschele, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 6 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.
Ignatius Kreschele and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km002.
The death of Ignatius Kreschele on 12 February 1810 is recorded in the parish register of Kamenka.
The 1767 census records that Ignizius Kreschele came from the German village of Ettlingen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Km002.
- Parish register of Kamenka.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 225.
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