Kreutzer (Laub)*
Henrich Creutzer from the area of Anspach & Anna Elis. Wenner from Zeilard near Darmstadt were married 22 April 1766 in the City Lutheran Church of Friedberg.
Heinrich Kreutzer, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17.
Johann Michael Kreutzer, presumed son of Heinrich Kreutzer, and his son Georg Friedrich (age 7) are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb61.
The deaths of Johann Michael Kreutzer in 1811 and his son Johann Heinrich Friedrich in 1805 are recorded on the 1811 census of Laub in Household No. 58.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Kreutzer came from the German village of Eberstadt in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kreutzer 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): Lb61.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #329.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 23.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2195.
Brent Mai