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Knaub (Merkel)

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Knaub (Merkel)
Кнаупъ (Merkel)
Кнаубъ (Merkel)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation

Johann Ludwig Knaub and his widowed mother Anna Maria Dorothea immigrated to Russia.  The widow Knaub remarried to Johann Heinrich Böse and the Böse/Knaub family settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766.  They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.

Sources

- 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): Mr16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 126.

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Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

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Volga Colonies

50.883333, 45.287167
50.783167, 47.044

Immigration Locations

40.4, -104.716667
41.809122, -103.503369
44.620833, -103.4033
44.714708, -103.420744
44.410278, -103.518611
39.5625, -95.128333
45.523062, -122.676482
41.826362, -103.657762