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Johannes Streck, son of Johannes Streck & Elisabeth Limpert, was born 5 April 1733 in Gersfeld. He married on 11 May 1756 to Maria Elisabeth Klüber, daughter of tailor Johannes Klüber. She had been born 22 September 1739 in Gersfeld.

The births of three children born to Johannes Streck & Maria Elisabeth Klüber are recorded in the parish register of Gersfeld: (1) Johannes, born 7 June 1760; (2) Margaretha, born 12 December 1762; and (3) Johann Georg, born 23 January 1765.

Johann Streck, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johannes, age 6; Elisabeth age 4; Georg, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.

Johannes Streck, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Margaretha, and children (Johann, age 6; Elisabeth, age 5; Dorothea, age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 15. They had arrived in Walter on 25 August 1767.

In 1796, Johannes Streck moved from Walter to Hussenbach.

In 1798, Nikolaus Streck and his family moved from Walter to Frank.

Nikolaus Streck is recorded on the 1811 census of Frank in Household No. 138 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Walter in 1808 [sic].

Nikolaus Streck from Frank is recorded on the 1811 census of Walter in Household No. 1 along with a note that he arrived in Walter from Frank in 1801 [sic].

Johannes’ son Georg Streck, born about 1790 in Walter, moved to Kolb between the 1816 and 1834 censuses.

Sources

- 1811 Frank Census (Household No. 138).
- 1811 Walter Census (Household No. 1).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 804.
- 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): Fk138, Hs061, Wt065, Mv2966, Mv2968.
- Parish records of Gersfeld, Fulda - Archive of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck in Kassel (Archion.de)
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 298.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6441.

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