Spelling Variations
Behrens (Chasselois)
Berns (Chasselois)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Widow Anna Maria Behrens, a farmer's wife, and her children settled in the Volga German colony of Chasselois on 2 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 31.
Following the destruction of Chasselois, the Behrens family relocated to the colony of Louis.
The 1767 census records that Anna Maria Behrens came from the German village of Liebau in the Schlesien 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): Ls35, Ls36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 258.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Pre-Volga Origin
50.703333, 16.001944
Volga Colonies
Immigration Locations
-31.983333, -60.583333