Kress (Rothammel)
Anna Maria Kress, daughter of Johann Heinrich Kress & Anna Maria Unger, was born 5 April 1760 in Dürkheim.
Johann Heinrich Kress, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 10; Joseph, age 8; Maria, age 6; Katharina, age 4; Hubertus, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2. By this time Heinrich has remarried to widow Katharina Appelhans and she and her children are living there as well.
Joseph Kress and his family is recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt15 along with a note that his son Adam Kress is working in the colony of Brabander.
The death of Joseph Kress in 1808 is recorded on the 1811 census of Rothammel in Household No. 15.
Heinrich Kress, son of Joseph Kress, is recorded on the 1811 census of Rothammel in Household No. 15 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Näb in 1811.
Descendants of Johann Heinrich Kress are recorded on the 1834 census of Rothammel in Households No. 38 & 60.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Kress came from the German village of Dürkheim in the Kurpfalz region.
- 1811 Rothammel Census (Household No. 15).
- 1834 Rothammel Census (Households No. 38, 60).
- 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): Nr129, Nr218.
- Parish register of Dürkheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 81.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5893.
Max Weinbinder
Brent Mai