Johann Georg Krieger, a farmer, and his wife Ursula arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Georg Krieger, a farmer, his wife Ursula, and daughter Christina (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 94. They had arrived in Preuss on 16 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Krieger came from the German region of Schwaben (Swabia). The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Utzenhofen in the region of Schwaben (Swabia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Krieger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 337.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 429.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2504.
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