Spelling Variations
Ort (Chasselois)
Ортъ (Chasselois)
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Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Ort, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Nikolaus, age 11; Mattias, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Chasselois in Household No. 4. They had arrived in Chasselois on 2 August 1766.
Following the destruction of Chasselois, the Ort family relocated to the colony of Louis.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Ort came from the German village of Saarburg in the Trier region.
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): Ls19, Ls20, Ls39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 250.
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