Propp
Michael Propp, a single farmer, arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 May 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Jacob Janson.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach and is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Hs011.
Heinrich Propp from Hussenbach is recorded on the 1834 census of Kolb in Household No. 57.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Propp came from Poland.
- 1834 Kolb Census (Household No. 57).
- 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): Hs011, Hs111, Hs117.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #27.
Brent Mai