Michaelis (Kratzke)

Philipp Michaelis (age 24), a cooper (Küfer), his wife Dorothea Ruck (age 25), and son Johann Philipp Michaelis (age ¾) 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 20 September 1765.

The 1767 Census of Kratzke records the family of Philipp Michaelis (age 27), a wine-maker (Weinbrenner) from "Kurpfalz, Munsam?", his wife, Maria Dorothea, 28, and their daughter Anna Magdalena (no age recorded) in Household No. 3. They had settled in Kratzke on 7 August 1766. The Michaelis chart prepared by Igor Pleve in 1998 records Philipp Michaelis from "Kurpfalz, Munsam?".

Evangelisches Kirchenbuch Monsheim, 1609-1781, records:

"den 28tn Juny ist Kieffer Meister Johann Theodor Michaelis ein Söhnlein gebohren, den 1tn July (....) getaufft. Gevatter war ..Johann Philip Pleickarth, gerichtsman N: Joh. Philip."

Translation: [28 Jun (1742) a son was born to master cooper Johann Theodor Michaelis and baptized 1 Jul. Godparent was Johann Philip Pleickart, judge. Name: Joh. Philip].

Widower Johann Philipp Michaelis is recorded on the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. Kr01 and a couple of his sons in Households No. Kr21 & Kr22.

Michaelis descendants are recorded on the 1834 census of Kratzke in Households No. 8, 16, 23, 47, 54, 56, & 79.

On the 1857 census of Kratzke, Michaelis descendants are recorded in Households No. 8, 16, 22, 49, 50, 57, 59, & 78).

Georg Jakob Michaelis from Kratzke and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Ährenfeld.

The 1765 Worms list records that Philipp Michaelis came from the German village of Monsheim.