Seib (Kraft)
Cobbler Johann Balthasar Seip, son of Johannes Seip, married in the Lutheran church in Büdesheim on 20 October 1729 to Maria Margaretha Horn, daughter of baker Johann Georg Horn. She was Roman Catholic.
Among the children born to Johann Balthasar Seip and Maria Margaretha Horn is Johann Nicolaus, born 9 May 1746, baptized 11 May 1746 in Büdesheim.
Nikolaus Seib, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44 along with his new bride Katharina.
Widower Johann Nikolaus Seib and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kraft in Household No. Kf16.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Kraft is a farmer while the 1767 census records that he is a cobbler (Schuhmacher).
The 1767 census records that Adam Kraft is from the German district of Friedberg.
- 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): Kf16.
- Parish register of Büdesheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 404.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5102.
Brent Mai
Maggie Hein