Strecker (Grimm-1)
Friedrich Strecker, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Grimm and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.
Friedrich Strecker, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Johann Adam, age 4½; Anna Margaretha, age 2) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 131.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Strecker came from the region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Württemberg.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 131).
- 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): Gm036.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 80.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4915.
Brent Mai