Spelling Variations
Pfister*
Фистеръ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Wilhelm Pfister, a soldier (Soldat), and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Rohleder on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Pfister came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Pfister family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 53.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai