Schwab (Kraft)

Johannes Schwab, son of Martin Schwab, was baptized 13 February 1714 in Wallernhausen.

Johannes Schwab married in Fauerbach on 4 December 1739 to Adelheit Plock, daughter of Conrad Plock.

Johannes and Adelheit had several children in Fauerbach including: (1) Heinrich Peter, baptized 3 January 1742; and (2) Anna Margaretha, baptized 4 June 1747.  

Daughter Margaretha Schwab married Michael Bott at the Reformed Church in Lübeck on 2 July 1766.

Johann[es] Schwab, a farmer and his wife Adelheit arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov along with their son Peter Schwab, a farmer, and his wife Katharina and their daughter Margaretha and her husband Michael Bott, a farmer.

They all settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767.

(1) Johannes Schwab, a farmer, and his wife Edelheist are recorded on the 1767 census of Kraft in Household No. 37 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Dönhof in 1768.

They do not appear on the 1798 census of Dönhof.

(2) [Heinrich] Peter Schwab, a farmer, and his wife Katharina [Weisel] are recorded on the 1767 census of Kraft in Household No. 54.

He is recorded on the 1798 census of Kraft in Household No. Kf03.

In 1797, Johann Georg Schwab moved from Kraft to Galka. He is recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk12.

(3) Anna Margaretha [Schwab] and her husband Michael Bott are recorded on the 1767 census of Kraft in Household No. 38. [See Bott Family.]

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] and Peter Schwab came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johannes Schwab came from the German village of Fauerbach in the Darmstadt region and that Peter Schwab came from the German village of Villbach? [Fauerbach perhaps] in the Darmstadt region.