Spelling Variations
Weiss (Mariental)
Weis (Mariental)
Вейсъ (Mariental)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Georg Weiss, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental on 16 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15.
The 1767 census records that Georg Weiss came from the German village of Manderscheid in the Kurtrier region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 99.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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Immigration Locations
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