American Historical Society of Germans From Russia

German Origins Project

Legend:   BV=a German village near the Black Sea.   FN= German family name.    FSL= First Settlers’ List.    GL= a locality in the Germanies.    GS= one of the German states.   ML= Marriage List.   RN= the name of a researcher who has verified one or more German origins.   UC= unconfirmed.    VV= a German Volga village.
Names in bold are an entry or a cross-reference to an entry.  Red text calls attention to information for which verification is completed or well underway.

 

 
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KrabeFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Dessau (no locality mentioned).  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

KrabeFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Kochstedt, Dessau.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.  The name was also spelled Krahe (Mai&Marquardt#1105).

KrachFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  I cannot find them in the index to the 1798 censuses.

KrachFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Lohr.  In 1798 the family name was spelled Kracht (Mai1798:Kn31).

KrachtFN: see Krach.

KrackajVV: is a variant of KratzkeVV.

KraegelFN: see Krigel.

KraemerFN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Lindenfels Oberamt, Kurpfalz. 

KraemerFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Arlon, Luxembourg.

KraemerFN: said by the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Grosshausen, Darmstadt.

KraemerFN: the Dinkel FSL says this orphan was living in a Mainz household from Begant(?), Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

KraemerFN: the Dinkel FSL says this orphan was living in a Greis household from Ziegenberg, Darmstadt.

KraemerFN: according to the Goebel FSL this was the maiden name of Person (fromUC Pout-aux-Moines(?), Frankreich)’s wife.

Kraemer{Johann}FN: both the 1858 Kassel census (#244) and KS:340 said this family came fromUC Menzingen, Bruchsal [Amt], Baden.  See the GCRA book for more.

Kraemer{Matthaeus}FN: said by KS:340 to be fromUC Bretzfeld, Oehringen [Amt], Wuerttemberg and to have gone to Kassel.  The GCRA thinks he may have been grandfatherUC to Kraemer{Johann} who was born in Kassel.

KraemerFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Dienheim.

KraemerFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Kutter FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz.

KraemerFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC Klemintz?, Sachsen.

KraemerFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Zell.  

KraemerFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Dueben; a Merier sister-in-law was living with them which would indicate that frau Kraemer’s maiden name probably was Merier.

KraemerFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Woelferlingen.

KraemerFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Eversdorf.

KraemerFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Oberhausen, Kur Trier

KraemerFN: said by the Rothammel FSL to be fromUC Esch, Trier.

KraemerFN: said by the Schwed FSL to be fromUC Biedenov, Darmstadt.

KraemerFN said by the Seewald FSL to be fromUC Neustadt, Pfalz.

KraemerFN: said by the Seewald FSL to be fromUC Schwalbach, Nassau.

KraemerFN: also see Kramer and Kremer.

KraenzlerFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:670, 676, 341) to be from Lustnau, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  Using FHL(1,457,428), the GCRA verified this origin. See the GCRA book for more details.  Also spelled Kranzler.

KraeuterFN: said by the Balzer FSL to be from Isenburg.  Bonner proved birth in Oberwidermus, Isenburg[-Meerholz County].  Also spelled Krauter.

KrafftFN: according to the Buedingen ML this woman married in 1766 a Scherff man (Mai&Marquardt#420).  By 1767 this couple was in Moor.

KrafftFN: a Krafft woman is said by the Buedingen ML to be fromUC Storndorff and to have married a Homburg man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Walter (Mai&Marquardt#695).

KrafftFN:  also see Kraft.

KraftFN: said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz (no locality given) and the wife was reported to be from Paterburg; the household included a Kifler? step-daughter.  A Luebeck ML said this Krafft man married a Kuemler woman in 1765 (Mai&Marquardt#5). The 1798 Katharinenstadt census gave the wife’s maiden name as Kiebler (Mai&Marquardt#114).

KraftFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Rutenburg(?), Lohbach(?).

KraftFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Friedberg (no locality mentioned).

KraftFN: said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Ramstadt(?), Darmstadt, and by the Kromm verstion to be from Ristedt.

KraftFN: both the 1816 Kassel census (#60) and KS:341(twice!) said this family came fromUC Hoffenheim, Sinsheim [Amt], Baden. Using FHL#193,771 the GCRA proved them to be from Annweiler, Bergzabern [Amt], Rhinepfalz. See the GCRA book for more.

KraftFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Kuesel, Aufhaussen.

KraftFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Alsfeld.

KraftFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).

KraftFN: Bonner found this maiden name in the record of her Eckartshausen marriage to Hohnstein{Adam}, later of Norka.

KraftFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be a widowed mother-in-law living in the Dorn household.

KraftFN: this family name was found recorded in Herborn marriage records 1762-1767, and in Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.

KraftVV (aka Grjaznucha, Verkhnaya Grasnukha, Werchnaja Graesnucha) is a mostly Lutheran German village on the western side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.II, pp. 393-412.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens. The number with the name is their household number in the FSL:

from Abentheuer: (Roth52);

from Alsfeld: (Helwig11, Kraft1, Ruhl10,71, Schlothauer8,9);

from Amt Breitenbach, Darmstadt: (Wenzel64);

from Ansbach: (Mack3);

from Berlin: (Lautahl60);

from Bieber(?): (Geiser65);

from Bisses(?); (Schneider16);

from Bitersan(?), Friedberg: (Schwind45, Seib44);

from Breitenbrunn, Friedberg: (Weimar/Weimer52);

from Buedingen, Isenburg: (Daubert42);

from Burbach, Isenburg: (Burbach72);

from Burgebrach: (Mueller66);

from Burgsinn, [Thuengen]: (Boehm19, Felter56, Lauterbach6, Schmidt20);

from Daenemark: (Eck13);

from Danstedt, Sachsen: (Frank5);

from Darmstadt: (Rexius22);

from Engelrod, Riedesel: (Koch15a, Krepp15, Schreiner14);

from Eket(?), Friedberg: (Wiehl4);

from Fauerbach, Darmstadt: (Schwab37);

from Gelnhausen: (Eurich57);

from Giessen, Isenburg: (Bertram33);

from Harber(?), Hannover: (Riege[Rieger]69);

from Hatz(?), Isenburg: (Brotzmann40);

from Holzhausen, Darmstadt: (Schuldeis34);

from Ikt(?), Darmstadt: (Luft2);

from Ittingen(?): (Zorn51);

from Kelor(?), Friedberg: (Beckel73);

from Kestrich: (Kess?12);

from Kirchdorf: (Schmidt46, and perhaps Sterlang46a);

from Kopenhagen: (Heimz32);

from Lich, Solms: (Schneider61);

from Lieblos, Isenburg: (Betz35);

from Lirbart(?), Darmstadt: (Lind39

from Londorf: (Baler?27);

from Meila(?): (Keifer31);

from Merlau, Darmstadt: (Becher24);

from Miesenbach(?), Zweibruecken: (Wickert67);

from Muenzesheim, Baden: (Sitler/Schitler17);

from No-Place-Name: (Grot72);

from Oberhausen, Hessen: (Hopp26,28);

from Ober Wintersheim, Darmstadt: (Sauerwein25);

from Pawlagau(?), Hanau: (Herdt23);

from Podosin(?), Hohensolms: (Schinf43);

from Praizio(?), Preussen: (Kohlberg63);

from Queckborn(?), Darmstadt: (Springel21);

from Remagen(?), Friedberg: (Karg29);

from Romrode, Darmstadt: (Stuerz62);

from Rothenbergen(?), Isenburg: (Brant59);

from Ruppertsburg(?), Laubach: (Off/Aff47);

from Sachsenhausen: (Eberling41);

from Stammheim, Isenburg: (Schuldeis20);

from Steinau-an-der-Strasse(?), Hanau: (Bott38);

from Sternenfels, Darmstadt: (Schneider18);

from Umstadt, Darmstadt (Tempel58);

from Umstand, Pfalz: (Tempel48);

from Vaitshain(?), Riedesel: (Stein7);

from Villbach(?), Darmstadt: (Schwab54);

from Weiler, Isenburg: (Wolf49);

from Weiler, Pfalz: (Balzer68);

from Weltersburg, Isenburg: (Hahn36);

from Wern(?), Isenburg: (Reichart[Reichert]70);

from Wiesbaden, Nassau: (Koch55);

from Zweibruecken: (Spingler50).

KraheFN: see Krabe.

KrahlFN: see Kral.

KrahnFN: this family name was found recorded in Kirburg marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

Krailshausen?,[Hohenlohe Principality and County]GL: is some 13 miles SE of Bad Mergentheim, and said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Werwein family.

KrainFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#30) and KS:307 with no origin.  Using FHL#493,207, the GCRA proved their origin in Kellenbach, Simmern [Kreis], Preussen Rheinland.  See the GCRA book for more.  Also spelled Krein and Grein.

KrakauGL, Polen: Krakow is some 205 miles NE of Vienna city, and said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to frau Berkenstock.

Kral/KrahlFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Freiberg.

KralFN: according to the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL these were the children of frau Schleiber/Schreiber/Maibeer by her first marriage (p.29).  Pleve calls them Kroll.

KramFN: of Kassel, see Frasch.

KramFN: see Kramm.

KramerFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Hannover (no locality mentioned) and to have married in Oranienbaum, a Hermann man.

KramerFN: said by the Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:665, 341) to have been Althengstett, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  This origin was verified by the GCRA using FHL(1,528,253).  See their book for more detail.  Also spelled Cramer.

KramerFN: two families said by the Simon family chart to be fromUC Darmstadt; the maiden name of one wife is Burbach.

KramerFN: said by KS:240 and 340 with no origin. Said by KS:341 to have come from Althengstett, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using FHL#1,528,253, the GCRA proved this origin; they found that this family was in Neudorf as well as Bergdorf. Also spelled Kraemer and Cramer.   See the GCRA book for much more.

KramerFN: this family name was found recorded in Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.

KrammFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Wuerzburg (no locality given). In 1798 the family name was spelled Kram (Mai1798:Ls3).

KrammFN: this family name was found recorded in Tann marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

KranefeldFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Muenster.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

KranewitzFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Wiesbach.    Spelled Krannewitter in 1798 when the maiden name of the wife was given as Sattler (Mai1798:Om24); also see (Om17 and 23).

KrannewitterFN: see Kranewitz.

KransbergGL: see Kranzberg.

KransburgGL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Mingelbach widow.  This may have been 10 miles N of Bremerhaven in Bremen Duchy, Kurhannover.

KranstaedtGL, Bohemia: a possible homeUC of a Schmal family that went to WalterVV.  Now called Krzanowice, Poland, some 204 miles SW of Dresden..

KrantzFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Dalheim, Luxembourg.

KrantzFN: this family name was found recorded in Haiger parish records during the years prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.

KranzFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Freiberg.

KranzbergGL, [Bassenheim Barony]: nka Kransberg 3 miles ENE of Usingen town and 6.5 miles W of Friedberg city, and  said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Heinrich family.  There is a Kranzberg some 18 miles N of Munich city, and a Kransberg, some, Hessen.

KranzlerFN: see Kraenzler.

Krapf FN: see Krapp.

KrappFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Geiselbach, [Kurmainz].   Spelled Krapf in 1798 and the maiden name of frau Krapf was given as Walter (Mai1798:Om34).

KrasFN:  Bonner found indications that this was the maiden name of the Popp widow who settled in Balzeer.

KrasensahlGL, Mecklenburg: an unidentified place said by the Bettinger FSL to be homeUC to a Mann family.

KrasnadelienGL: aka Heinrichsdorf?

KrasnojarVV: an alternate spelling of KrasnoyarVV.

KrasnojarowkaVV: an alternate spelling of KrasnoyarVV.

KrasnoyarVV (aka Krasnojar, Krasnojarowka, Krasnoyarovka, Krasnyj Jar, Krasny Yar) is a Lutheran German village on the eastern side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.II, pp.413-448.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens. The number with the name is their household number in the FSL:

from Alsfeld, Darmstadt: (Bath36, Hahn24, Keller38a, Pabst46, Rau25, Schneider46a, Spies97, Wahl91);

from Ansbach: (Markert13);

from Aue(?), Baden-Durlach: (Kreder60);

from Birstein, Isenburg: (Bauer23, Krausch27, Traut29);

from Bissersheim, Darmstadt: (Velde/Felde117;

from Braunfels(?): (Eller26);

from Buedingen, Isenburg: (Goetz72,73, Gross58, Reichert21, Weber3, and perhaps Schmidt58a);

from Darmstadt: (Habermehl118, Junker52, Knoll81, Lehr85, Leicht7, Nikolay10, Reier?49, Ritter54, Schmidt78, Steinbecher24a, Veller[Foeller of Seulberg, Hessen-Darmstadt]11, Werner51);

from Dienheim: (Aul106, Bopp55, Hessler50, Kraemer56, Mueller16, Neustaedt94, Schoenmeier108, Zeitler17,43);

from Erbach(?), Weilburg: (Schmidt28);

from Friedberg: (Groh112);

from Friedberg, Darmstadt: (Weiser75);

from Giessen(?), Darmstadt: (Felbusch113, Hoffmann111);

from Gruenberg, Darmstadt: (Appel61, Enders74, Hofmann115, Honburt?20, Lehr62);

from Hanau: (Diel101, Jaeger102);

from Homburg, Darmstadt: (Armbruester68,69, and possibly Laubach68a);

from Hungen, Braunfels: (Bus/Buss79);

from Isistadt(?), Brandenburg: (Keller30);

from Jahrstedt, Brandenburg: (Seignitz?57 and perhaps Schneider57a);

from Koethen, Stolberg: (Beller83);

from Laubach: (Baecker87, Diel34, Eckart/Eckardt4,5, Eusel120, Felsinger109, Fischer35, Fritz31,98, Hessler14,119, Idt71, Jaeger9, Keller47,48, Kins?88, Kraus116, Kuenzler82, Lenz70, Meier41, Pfeifer6a, Pieh15, Schad67, Schaefer66, Schetz84, Schneider19, Schreiner104, Wieser?86, and perhaps Schneider119a, and Zimmer109a);

from Laubach, Buedingen: (Griessmann89);

from Laubach, Solms: (Eckhard37);

from Lauterbach: (Weithardt76);

from Lauterbach, Riedesel: (Schmidt80);

from Lengfeld(?): (Sostdorf?105, and perhaps Stein105a);

from Lich, Solms: (Bender22,33, Roemer/Roehmer96);

from Lohr, Mainz: (Steugerwald/Steigerwald40);

from Mannheim, Kurpfalz: (Horn12, Thomas2, Uhrig/Uhrich6);

from Marburg(?), Hessen: (Kaiser114, and possibly Mueller114a);

from Meerholz, Isenburg: (Reifschneider110);

from Neustadt, Pfalz: (Schwabauer63);

from Nidda, Darmstadt: (Eckhardt103, Haas42, Hoeppner32, Krieger100, Meier99);

from Nordheim: (Schormer?64);

from Nuernberg: (Reich59);

from Obersinn, Wuerzburg[Thuengen]: (Mueller107);

from Ostheim, Eisenach, Sachsen: (Markert93);

from Riedesel, Darmstadt: (Walther1);

from Rilburg(?)/Rirburg(?), Darmstadt: (Stieler18);

from Salmuenster, Fulda: (Baecker45);

from Schlitz: (Markus38);

from Stadt: (Knoll65);

from Steinau, Hanau: (Simon39);

from Stolberg: (Schorg8);

from Ulrichstein(?), Darmstadt: (Funk44);

from Waechtersbach(?), Isenburg: (Sterz95);

from Weissenfels, Sachsen: (Kopp/Kopf92);

from Wertheim: (Puhl?53);

from Wetgra(?), Isenburg: (Bauer77);

from Winden(?), Wittenberg: (Haar90).

KrasnopoljeVV, a varient of the Russian name for PreussVV.

KrasnopolyeVV, a varient of the Russian name for PreussVV.

KrasnorynovkaVV: a form of the Russian name for KellerVV.

KrasnorynowkaVV: a form of the Russian name for KellerVV.

KrasnoyarovkaVV: an alternate spelling of KrasnoyarVV.

Krasnyj JarVV: an alternate spelling of KrasnoyarVV.

Krasny YarVV: an alternate spelling of KrasnoyarVV.

Krastdorf?GL, Luxembourg: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Blei family

KrastelFN: said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC Pilsheim-bei-Schmidmuehlen, Bayern.

Kratserber?: the 1798 Norka census says this was the maiden name of the wife in one of the Kildau households (Mai1798:Nr207).

KratzFN: said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC Treto(?), Holstein.

KratzFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Zelbig(?).  Probably spelled Kratz in 1798 (Mai1798: Mn23).

Kratz?FN: see Brozmann of Enders.

KratzFN: the Buedingen ML says this woman married in 1766 a Vogel man; by 1767 this couple was in Katharinenstadt (Mai&Marquardt#437).

KratzVV: another name for BaselVV.

KratzkaVV: is a variant of KratzkeVV.

KratzkeFN: said by the Kratzke FSL to be fromUC Ueckermuende/Ikormende, Preussisch Pommern.

KratzkeVV (aka Pochinnaya, Potschinnaja, Potschinnoje, Podchinnyy, Gracka, Gratzka, Kratzka, Krackaja) is a Lutheran German village on the western side of the Volga.    Its FSL has been published twice: first in Pleve, The German Colonies , pp.401-410, and second in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.II, pp.449-461.  According to them, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens.  Spellings sometimes differ between the two sources – a spelling that is from the second source is presented here in standard bold, if it appears the same way in the first source it is underlined, if it appears only in the first source it is italicized:

from Abo, Finnland: (Freiburg);

from Anhalt-Zerbst: (Frick);

from Auxerre(?)/Okser(?), Frankreich: (Moor);

from Berlin, Preussen: (Burgardt);

from Bern/Bren: (Steinkuhl);

from Darmstadt: (Gross);

from Duerkheim/Tirkim(?), Leiningen/Leining: (Gross);

from Elben/Elbin, Preussen: (Maljawski/Malyavski);

from Elsass: (Schunk);

from Ero(?), Sachsen: (Hauf);

from Hamburg: (Blum, Butler, Fischer, Fres?, Kislering?);

from Hesse-Darmstadt: (Kipper/Gipper?/Giper?);

from Hueffelsheim/Gifelsheim(?), Kurpfalz: (Buchsberger);

from Kaiserslautern, Kurpfalz: (Reiswig);

from Kemberg(?)/Kimber(?): (Sommer);

from Kergbolan(?), Nassau: (Gross);

from Kiel, Holstein: (Lange);

from Krelos(?), Wittenberg: (Knaus);

from Leipzig, Sachsen: (Hanschu);

from Luebeck: (Nigens?/Niedens);

from Machka(?), Preussen: (Frisch);

from Mecklenburg: (Becker);

from Mecklenburg-Schwerin,: (Burmeister);

from Munsam(?)/Munsyam(?) [Monsheim], Kurpfalz: (Michaelis);

from Nauleis(?)/Nailos(?), Wittenberg: (Bender);

from Neplasheim(?), Wittenberg: (Knaus);

from Nordhausen: (Rausendan?);

from Nortorf/Nortow(?), Holstein: (Rowetter);

from Oberappenfeld(?)/Oberhaltfeld, Hessen-Kassel: (Lisberg);

from Rabitsch(?)/Rabicz, Polen: (Risch);

from Rostock, Mecklenburg: (Schroeder/Schraeder);

from Rupen/Rieben, Brandenburg: (Westfal);

from Saarbruecken, Nassau: (Mueller/Miller);

from Sachsen: (Zuege/Zuge);

from Salzwedel, Brandenburg: (Schneider);

from Segeberg, Daenemark: (Naft);

from Stadt, Bremen/Breschen(?): (Rubke);

from Stendal/Stedal, Brandenburg: (Wolf);

from Sternberg, Mecklenburg: (Ankorholtz);

from Stockholm, Schweden: (Lungrin/Lingren?);

from Stralsund, Schwedisch Pommern: (Wittke);

from Tiren(?), Muelhausen: (Kistner);

from Tjunkoeping(?)/Tinkepin(?), Schweden: (Knopp/Knop/Knopf);

from Torgau, Sachsen: (Koenig);

from Ueckermuende/Ikormende, Preussisch Pommern: (Kratzke);

from Ulm: (Schakin?);

from Wibstrand(?)/Wiebstrant(?), Finnland; (Fabrizius);

from Wiesbaden, Nassau: (Mueller/Miller).

KrauFN, also see Grau.

KrauFN said by the Roethling FSL to possibly be from the state of Wuerttemberg?

KrausFN: said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Bern, Schweiz. I cannot find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

KrausFN: said by the Fischer FSL to be fromUC Ersterk?, Schlesien.

KrausFN: the other Kraus was said by the Fischer FSL to have no known place of origin; while his wife was said to have come from Schnerbil?, Polen.

KrausFN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC Hohn-am-Berg(?).

KrausFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Gutenfuerst? with Hauptrock? step-children in the household. 

Kraus{Andreas}FN: listed by both the 1816 Kassel census (#38) and KS:342 without origin.  Using FHL#1,860,320 the GCRA proved origin in Satteldorf, Crailsheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg.

KrausFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Laubach.  According to the Buedingen ML this man from Freyensehen married in 1766 a Volck woman (Mai&Marquardt#553).

KrausFN: said by the Messer 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Goebel (Mai1798:Ms26). According to the Buedingen ML a Gebel man from Petersroth married a Kraus woman from Spielberg; by 1767 this couple was in Messer (Mai&Marquardt:506).

KrausFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

KrausFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Zerbst (no locality indicated). .  The wife’s maiden name was given as Schreiter in 1798 (Mai1798:Or43).  According to a Rosslau ML this Krause man married in 1766 a Schroeter woman (Mai&Marquardt#940).

KrausFN: the Preuss Miller/Mueller family was said to have been from HalleGL, Brandenburg.  The 1798 census indicates that Miller’s wife’s maiden name was Kraus.

KrausFN: said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be fromUC Gening.  David Schmidt has proven that a Kraus woman married a Schneider settler in the village of Weissenbach.

KrausFN: said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC Rothenburg.  Later spelled Krauz.

KrausFN: see also Krause and Krauss.

KrauschFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Birstein, Isenburg.

KrauseFN: frau Schaefer, nee Krause, said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Saargemuend, Lothringen.

KraussFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Gelnhausen (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Kraus.

KrausewaldFN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Dresden, Sachsen. According to a Rosslau ML this Krauswald(t) man married in 1766 an Herbst woman (Mai&Marquardt#989).

KrausewaldtFN: see Krausewald.

KrautFN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC DetmoldGL, Lippe.

KrautFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Ambap(?), Wittenberg.

KrauterFN: see Kraeuter.

KrautheimGL, Kurmainz:an unidentified place said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Vogt family.

KrauzFN: see Kraus.

Kraz?FN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Obernau.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

KrebFN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be the maiden name of frau Koch (Mai1798:Pb28).

KrebeFN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Burg Gemuenden, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate].  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Krebs/Kret(?)FN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Grossenhausen, Hannover.

KrebsFN: said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC Klitten, Wittenberg[?].  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Krebst FN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Krina with Friehof step-sons in the household.  I could find neither family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Krecker?FN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

KrederFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Aue(?), Baden-Durlach.

KrefeldFN: frau Ubre said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Kirchhalt, Hanau.  Also spelled Crefeld.

KregeFN: said by the Bettinger FSL to be fromUC Klingen.  Later spelled Kreh.

KregeFN: said by the Bettinger FSL to be fromUC Lingenau.  Later spelled Kreh.

KrehFN: see Krege.

KrehfeldingerFN: see Kreweldinger.

KreibelFN: said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be have come fromUC Schwetzingen, Baden, near Mannheim later than the first settlers (p.137).

KreickFN: see Kreiek.

KreiekFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Kreick.

KreilichFN: according to the Buedingen ML, a Kreilich woman married in 1766 a Scheurer man; by 1767 this couple was in Grimm (Mai&Marquardt#544).

KreinFN: see Krain.

Kreis: a large administrative district; “circle” in English.

Kreiter/KreuterFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Gelhausen.  That surely is Gelnhausen.

Kreler?FN:  said by the Ober-Monjou 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Biehl (Mai1798:Om70).

Krell/KroellFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Dingen.

Krelos(?)GL, Wittenberg: an unidentified place said by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Knaus family.

Krem…, Hesse-Darmstadt: said by the Walter FSL to be homeUC to a Kippert family.  The Walter Research Group has identified this as a Klippert family fromUC Crainfield(?), Hessen.

KremerFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Weener. Spelled Kraemer in 1798 and the wife’s maiden name is given as Becker (Mai1798:Zr93?).

KremerFN: see Krimer.

Kremerew?, [Kur-]Trier: an unidenified place said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Pusterin/Bustert family.

Kremmeldorf GL: see Kremsdorf.

Kremrer?FN: said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Wuerttemberg (no locality indicated).

KremsdorfGL, Bamberg [Bishopric]: an unidentified place said by a Woehrd ML to be homeUC to a Rohr woman who in 1766 married a Niclas man; by 1767 this couple was in Kano  (Mai&Marquardt#324).  The place probably is Kremmeldorf some 6.5 miles NE of Bamberg city.

Krenreaus?GL, Polen: an unidentified place said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to a Brozmann orphan although it says his family name may have been Kratz?.

KrenterFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Gellhausen who married a Weinrich woman in Oranienbaum.  That surely is Gelnhausen.

KrentzFN: see Grentz and Grenz.

KrentzerFN: said by the Seewald FSL to be fromUC Holzkirchen, Wuerzburg.

KrentzerFN: also see Grenzer.

KrentznachGL, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Volmer FSL to be home to a Beilmann family.  This surely is Bad Kreutznach some 20 miles SW of Mainz city.

KrenzerFN: said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC Roding, Bayern.

KrenzerFN: this family name was found recorded in Tann marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

Krep?FN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Unterhens(?).  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Krepien, South Prussia: a corrupted form of Krzepice??

KreppFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Engelrod, Riedesel.

Kres?FN: said by the Rothammel FSL to be fromUC Dirkheim, Kurpfalz.

KrescheleFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Ettlingen.

Krestovoi-BuyerakVV: one form of the Russian name for MuellerVV.

Krestovyj-BuerakVV: one form of the Russian name for MuellerVV.

Krestowoi BujerakVV: one form of the Russian name for MuellerVV.

Krestwin?GL, Schweden: an unidentified place said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to a Rosenquist family.

KretFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC Frensdorf, Bamberg [Bishopric].   I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Kret(?)FN : also see Krebs.

KreteFN: see Crety.

KretschmannFN: see Ehresmann.

KretzFN: see Graetz.

KretzGL,  Pfalz: an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Hernthaller/Herrenstahler family.  The only Kretz I could find is 10 miles WNW of Koblenz and would then have been in Kurtrier, not in Kurpfalz.