Strasser (Laub)
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Strasser (Laub)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Kaspar Strasser, a single cobbler (Schuhmacher), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 15 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53 along with his new wife Katharina.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Strasser came from the German village of Ebingen in the Württemberg region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 32.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2011.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai