Johann Kraneberch [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Ehrlach [sic], age 17½; Erick, age 12; Salomon, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Wilhelm Kroneberger, a farmer, his wife Anna Gertrude, and sons (Johann Gerhardt, age 18; Georg Heinrich, age 15; Salomon, age 11) settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.
Johann Ehrhard Kroneberger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl07.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kraneberch [sic] came from the German region of Köln.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 433.
- 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): Dl07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 269.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3373.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Kroneberger and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.