Strauss (Basel)*
Konrad Straus, a tailor, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Conrad Staus [sic], his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna, age 15; Johannes, age 10¼; Conrad, age 7; Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
The surviving children (Anna Elisabeth, age 15; Johannes, age 10; and Elisabeth, age 6) arrived in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and are recorded on the appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 89 along with a note that they resettled to the colony of Basel in 1768.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Strauss family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 219.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4449.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6091-6096.
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