Spelling Variations
Hoffmann (Merkel)*
Гофманъ (Merkel)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Karl Hoffmann, a single cloth weaver (Tuchweber), settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 17 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49.
The 1767 census records that Karl Hoffmann came from Poland.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hoffmann family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 129.
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