Krickau

Philipp Jakob & Maria Christina Krikau had at least two children: (1) Johann Georg, was born on 20 October 1721 in Wolfenhausen; and (2) Maria Catharina.

Daughter Maria Catharina Krikau married Jacob Späth and settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer [see Späth family].

Son Johann Georg Krickau, married Maria Kunigunda [surname unknown]. The baptisms of the following children are recorded in the parish register of Wolfenhausen: (1) Johann Wilhelm, baptized 7 September 1749; (2) Maria Katharina, baptized 31 October 1751; (3) Maria Magdalena, baptized 27 July 1753; and (4) Johann Adam, baptized 7 September 1765.

Johann Georg Krickau, a farmer, his wife Kunigunda, and children (Johann Wilhelm, age 16; Maria Katharina, age 14; Maria Magdalena, age 11; Anna Elisabeth, age 7½; Johann Adam, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.

Kunigunda died after they arrived in Russia, and Johann Georg remarried to widow Maria Katharina Gilau who was on the same ship arriving in Oranienbaum with them. The combined Krickau/Gilau family settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. Johann Georg Krickau, his wife Maria Katharina, children by his first wife (Johann Wilhelm, age 18; Maria Katharina, age 16; Maria Magdalena, age 8; Johann Adam, age 3), and stepchildren (Anna Maria Gilau, age 16; Johann Georg Gilau, age 13) are recorded there on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 156.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Krickau came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Wolfenhausen in the region of Runkel.