Spelling Variations
Fuchs (Galka-2)*
Фуксъ (Galka-2)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Katharina Fuchs, widow of a farmer, and her daughter Katharina Elisabeth (age 17), settled in the Volga German colony of Galka on 27 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52.
The 1767 census records that Katharina Fuchs came from the German village of Steinberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Fuchs family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 33
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Brent Mai