Friedrich Wilhelm Seltenreich, son of Georg Adam & Magdalena Seltenreich was born 6 April 1727 in Lorbach.
The parish register of the Reformed Church of Saints Peter & Paul in Danzig records that Friedrich Seldenreich [sic] from the Pfalz & Anna Catharina Grüs from the Pfalz, widow of a Mr. Grüs, were married on 23 May 1765 in Danzig.
Friedrich Seltenreich, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Moor on 1 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Seltenreich came from the German region of Kurpfalz.
- 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): Mo18.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #756.
- Parish register of Lorbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 158.
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