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Welter
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Widow Maria Welter, a farmer's wife, and her daughter Margaretha (age 17) settled in the Volga German colony of Chasselois on 2 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.
The 1767 census records that Maria Welter came from the German region of Trier.
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): Nr129, Nr218.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 252.
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