Spelling Variations
Freude*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Just Freude, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aoard a ship under the command of Skipper Heidemann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 28 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
The 1767 census records that Just Freude came from the German village of Berleburg near Köln.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 219.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4152.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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