Johann [Adam] Prenzig, a weaver (Leineweber), his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 11; Katharina, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 May 1767. Adam is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15 along with his [new] wife Anna Maria, their son Johann Gottlieb (age ½), and stepdaughter Maria Magdalena [surname not recorded] (age 12).
The 1767 census records that Adam Prenzing came from the German village of Wunsiedel in the Bayreuth region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Prenzing family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 145.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 232.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #880.
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