Spelling Variations
Schermer (Mariental)*
Шермеръ (Mariental)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Peter Schermer, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental on 16 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.
The 1767 census records that Peter Schermer came from the German village of Raude in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schermer family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 102.
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