Johann Jakob Krahl [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and children (Anna Maria, age 15; Johann Jakob, age 12; Johann Adam, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Johann Jacob Kräh [sic], his wife Anna Catharina, and children (Anna Maria, age 15; Johann Jacob, age 12; Adam, age 10) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Jakob Kroll (age 12) and his siblings (Anna Maria, age 18; Johann Adam, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 23 along with their stepfather Johann Adam Schleiber.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Jakob Krahl came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census does not record from where the Kroll family came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kroll family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 787.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8060-8064.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 179.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6292.
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