Krieger (Schuck)
Johann Georg Krieger (age 38), a shepherd (Schäfer), his wife Anna Eva Mehr (age 30), and [step-]sons (Johann Jacob [Zink], age 11; Joseph [Zink], age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 21 September 1765.
Johann Georg Krieger, a farmer, his wife Eva, [step-]sons (Johann Jakob [Zink], age 18; Joseph [Zink], age 12), and son Johann Peter (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 5. They had arrived in Schuck on 18 June 1766.
Brothers Peter & Michael Krieger moved from Schuck to Volmer in 1824.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Georg Krieger came from the German village of Bobstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Krieger came from the German village of Dieburg in the Mainz region.
- 1834 Schuck Census (Households No. 11, 12).
- 1834 Volmer Census (Household No. 29).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 126 (#336-339).
- 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): Su02.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 112.
Brent Mai