Lorenz Schroh, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth Maria (age 26), children (Heinrich, age 18; Maria Eva, age 15), and [step-]children (Johann Adam [Gärtner], age 5; Anna Maria [Gärtner], age 2; Peter [Gärtner], age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 2. They had arrived in Volmer on 18 July 1766.
An entry from the minutes of the Office of Immigrant Guardianship on 29 April 1776 records that the widower colonist Lorenz Schroh from Volmer has petitioned to marry Magdalena, widow of Franz Ziegler from Seelmann.
In 1789, Lorenz Schroh [presumed son of Heinrich] moved from Volmer to Sewald.
Heinrich Schroh (age 56) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm44, but the age of this Heinrich does not correlate with the son of Lorenz Schroh [who was 18 in 1767, above]. Further research is needed to resolve this data conflict.
The 1767 census records that Lorenz Schroh came from the German village of Kaiserslautern in the Kurpfalz region.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sd01, Sd24, Vm04, Vm15, Vm44, Mv2925.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2008): 285.
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